Information an animal gets from inside its body or outside its body that makes it change what it does.

Kinesis

A type of motion that is random. If an animal is in an unacceptable place, it moves randomly until it finds an acceptable place.

Taxis

A non-random type of motion towards or away from a stimulus.

Circadian Rhythm

The regular schedule of an animals actions during the day.

Biological Clock

An animals natural biological sense of time. 

Instinct

behavior that animals naturally have. These don't require learning.

Innate

something an animal can do perfectly the first time it tries. This ismilar to instinct.

Releaser

This makes an animal do something innate.

Habituation

When an animal learns not to pay attention to a stimulus.

Imprinting

The short time in the animals' life when it learns to identify its parents.

Imitation

copying the behavior of others.

Classical Conditioning

Origin of classical conditioning

Operant Conditioning

Origin of operant conditioning

Survivorship

the state of being a survivor.

Territoriality

territorial quality, condition, or status.

Optimal Foraging

Find food

Pheromone

Chemicals that attract one animal to another.

Altruism

the principle or practice of unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others 

Inclusive Fitness

the fitness of an individual organism as measured in terms of the survival and reproductive success of its kin, each relative being valued according to the probability of shared genetic information, an offspring or sibling having a value of 50percent and a cousin 25 percent.

Kin Selection

a form of natural selection that favors altruistic behavior toward close relatives resulting in an increase in the altruistic individual's genetic contribution to the next generation.

Eusocial

of or relating to a form of insect society, as that of ants, characterized by specialization of tasks and cooperative care of the young.

Cognition

The ability to think

Insight

an instance of apprehending the true nature of a thing, especially through intuitive understanding:

Cultural Behavior

Social and learned behavior that must be taught to other animals.