Week 5 Post 1

Behavioural Development

• Many factors that affect individuals at different life stages
• Multiple factors can layer together
• Some behaviors show hereditary traits
• Generally, animal behavior is a result of nature and nurture
• Combination of the environment and genetics
• Gene-environment effects: 
• An individual's genotypes developing under certain conditions
• Determining genetic effects => difficult
• Similar genotypes grow in similar environmental conditions
• Twins/Siblings
• they are genetically closely related, but they also share their early environment, and either could be the source of their similarities
• When an individual performs complex actions without any apparent direct benefit
• There is different forms of play: object play, locomotor play, and social play
• Object play: allows animals to practice foraging, catching, holding
• Locomotor play: develop motor skills
• Social play: develop social skills