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Animal behaviour is the study of these and other questions about why animals behave the way they do. The study of animal behavior begins with understanding how an animal's physiology and anatomy are integrated with its behavior. It includes all the ways animals interact with other organisms and the physical environment. Some behaviors are innate, or genetically hardwired, while others are learned, or developed through experience. In many cases, behaviors have both an innate component and a learned component. Animal behavior includes all the ways animals interact with other organisms and the physical environment. Behavior can also be defined as a change in the activity of an organism in response to a stimulus, an external or internal cue or combo of cues. To fully understand a behavior, we want to know what causes it, how it develops in an individual, how it benefits an organism, and how it evolved. Some behaviors are innate, or genetically hardwired, while others are learned, or developed through experience. In many cases, behaviors have both an innate component and a learned component. Behavior is shaped by natural selection. Many behaviors directly increase an organism's fitness, that is, they help it survive and reproduce.

Broadly speaking, animal behavior includes all the ways animals interact with other members of their species, with organisms of other species, and with their environment. Behavioral biology is the study of the biological and evolutionary bases for behavior. Modern behavioral biology draws on work from the related but distinct disciplines of ethology and comparative psychology. Animal behaviour, the concept, broadly considered, referring to everything animals do, including movement and other activities and underlying mental processes. Human fascination with animal behaviour probably extends back millions of years, perhaps even to times before the ancestors of the species became human in the modern sense. Initially, animals were probably observed for practical reasons because early human survival depended on knowledge of animal behaviour. Whether hunting wild game, keeping domesticated animals, or escaping an attacking predator, success required intimate knowledge of an animal’s habits. Even today, information about animal behaviour is of considerable importance. For example, in Britain, studies on the social organization and the ranging patterns of badgers (Meles meles) have helped reduce the spread of tuberculosis among cattle, and studies of sociality in foxes (Vulpes vulpes) assist in the development of models that predict how quickly rabies would spread should it ever cross the English Channel. Furthermore, humans have long appreciated how beautifully and intricately the behaviours of animals are adapted to their surroundings. For example, young birds that possess camouflaged colour patterns for protection against predators will freeze when the parent spots a predator and calls the alarm. Darwin’s achievement was to explain how such wondrously adapted creatures could arise from a process other than special creation.

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