behavior

How organisms act and respond to their environment. Behavioral patterns reveal the decision rules and strategies that evolution has selected for survival and reproduction.

39 entities tagged with "behavior"

Definitions (39)

acoustic-communication

alarm-calls

ambush-predation

central-place-foraging

cheater-detection

chemical-signaling

chemotaxis

coalition

coalition-formation

cultural-transmission

dewlap

dominance-hierarchy

dopamine

flocking-coordination

kin-selection

leadership-currencies

levy-flight

marginal-value-theorem

mating

migration

net-energy-gain

optimal-foraging-theory

oxytocin

pheromone

pheromone-signaling

phototropism

predator

prey

prosocial

prosocial-leadership

reciprocal-altruism

risk-sensitive-foraging

serotonin

stigmergy

swarm-intelligence

sympatric-speciation

taxis

testosterone

tropism

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