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Lecture 12- Applications of animal behaviourHow can the study of animal behaviour be applied?
Economics/politics:
Chimpanzee politics
Use as an example of social structures and governments
How to look at animals to see how we ourselves operate and interact with other people in
society
Understand basic rules of interaction and cooperation
Economic:
How animals are motivated to get different resources
Economic theory of motivation to understand how we can best measure how much an
individuals wants something
How much are you willing to pay to get access to a resource
Psychology:
Animals as a model system for human behaviour
Conservation and animal welfare:
Address real world problems
Disease epidemiology:
Animal behaviour- spread of disease- more likely to get a disease though contact out
interacting with other individuals with that pathogen
Incorporate behaviour into the models
Humans- sexually transmitted disease
Measles and influenza outbreak
Agriculture/robotics:
How animal behaviour can give information as to how robots work
Used in agricultural setting can be combined robotics
E.g.g robot fish- understand how real fish swim
Education:
Many are interested in animal behaviour
Good television for public audiences
Convey complex subjects to the general public through the medium of visual imagery- david
attenborough
Being able to handle animals
Films:
Nature programmes
Broader Hollywood context- animals as characters in films
Apply animal behaviour to get them to perform different behaviour in different settings
Dogs
Dog training uses knowledge of social and dominance structures, positive reinforcement and
operant conditioning…
Entertainment, companionship, military and police, help dogs, search and rescue, sheep
dogs…
, Animal behaviour consultancy
Looking for clinal animal behaviour problems
Dogs most common
Try to fix problem over long period of time
Dogs- separation anxiety, aggression
Training used is based on learning paradigms - conditioning
Economics
Kalenscher and van Wingerden suggest we can investigate human economic decision making by
comparing and contrasting with animal behaviour…
Theory of motivation
Decision making in valuing different items in different ones
Come from classical economic theory
Overlap between areas
Ways animal behaviour has contributed
Trade
International economics
Tit for tat scheme- both keep fulfilling contract
Have collaborative and cooperate relationship
Crowded Cities – a Dutch start up trying to use crows to rid the streets of cigarette butts
Linked to public good
Netherlands
Cleans streets without using human intervention
Disease
Mating systems and sexually transmitted infections (Ashby and Gupta 2013 Phil Trans 368;
20120048)
How animal behaviour can influence understanding of disease transmission
STDS
Social network theory
Counts each one of use as a dot on this figure
Use humans, animals, telephone masts
All about communication
Looking at sexual relationship between individuals in a population and how it leads to spread
of disease
Look at dynamics of network and how connected it is
The bigger dot- individual with the most partners
If a disease came into a population this individuals with the most partners are more likely
through probability to contract a disease
More likely to be key individual for spreading disease out
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