Animal Psychology Advanced - Qp4

Behaviour can be so well adapted to an animal’s way of life that it simply knows what to do and when to do it.

A concise definition of communication is the responding of one animal to the signals sent by another animal.

The most common form of visual communication is through facial expression.

Vocal communication is necessary for many tasks, including mating rituals, warning calls, conveying location of food sources, and social learning.

Touch can be very important in certain social interactions, and grooming of one animal by another is perhaps the most obvious and widespread touch behaviour.

The importance and sensitivity of smell varies among different organisms; most birds have a good sense of smell, whereas most mammals do not.

A common form of animal communication is electrocommunication.

Visual communication includes morphological colour change, in which changes occur in relation to stage of development, or physiological colour change, in which colour change is triggered by mood, social context, or factors such as temperature.

Rutting season is the mating season of ruminant mammals.