Behavior

• Interest 2.safety of animals and people 3.welfare/comfort 4.maximize productivity 5.Understanding human behavior

to determine behavioral and physiological indicators of stress and/or well-being in food producing animals and to develop management systems that maximize well- being in farm animals

Genetics * AKA Instincts! * Allowed for successful domestication * Selecting animals for or against a behavior is an important means of improving behavior Environment * Behavior develops in synchrony with environment in which animal lives * Imprinting/learning * Animal management effects

-Comparative psychology - Mechanisms controlling behavior (Learning , sensation, perception and genetics) -Sociobiology - Biological basis of behavior -Behavioral Ecology - Relationship between behavior and environment -Ethology - Behavior of animal in its natural environment; employs the development and use of ethograms

• Communication • Social Structure • Sleep • Biological Rhythms – Circadian clock • Sexual Behavior • Maternal Behavior • Feed and Water Intake

• Patterns of behavior and activity that occur in cycles • Sexual cycles and circadian rhythms • Influenced by factors such photoperiod and nutrition which influence endocrine function • The endocrine system produces hormones that regulate biological rhythms • Circadian rhythms- the 24 hour cycle- affected by photoperiod

-Imprinting -conditioning -habituation -operant or instrumental learning

Relatively irreversible learning process that occurs rapidly following hatch or birth

Pavlov’s dog

getting accustomed to a halter/ collar or saddle

• Learning by trial and error • Learning to use feeder, reward punishment type learning (clickers in dog)

coping mechanisms, we cannot completely irradicate these

-Stall Kicking -Cribbing, weaving, stall kicking -feather pecking -wool chewing -tail/ear biting -berserk male syndrome, spitting/aggressive -clawing, wool sucking