The Study of Instinct |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Need of a Broad Basis for Generalizations | 10 |
BEHAVIOUR AS A REACTION TO EXTERNAL STIMULI | 15 |
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adaptive alarm call animal appetitive behaviour behaviour elements behaviour pattern birds causal central nervous centre chicks cichlid co-ordination colour complete component conclusion consummatory act countershading dependent digger wasp direction displacement activities dorsal dummy eggs ethologist ethology evolution experimental experiments external stimuli fact feeding female fins fish fixed pattern function grayling butterfly gull hierarchical Holst homologous hormone impulses individual innate behaviour innate releasing mechanism instance instinctive behaviour intensity internal factors isolating mechanisms learning locomotion locomotory Lorenz male stickleback male three-spined stickleback mating ments morphological motivation motor response move muscle nest observed organs oriented movement Paramaecium pectoral fins peregrine falcon phenomenon Philanthus triangulum physiological predator prey problem processes react reaction receptors reflex relatively releasing mechanism result rhythm selection sensory sign stimuli social releasers species stimulus situation survival value telotaxis territory three-spined stickleback Tinbergen tion tropism visual wasp Weiss whole young