Download Study Group Questions and Answers - Companion Animal Biology and Care | ANSC 207 and more Study notes Animal Biology in PDF only on Docsity! Natalie Piper 1. Please explain the neonatal developmental stage of a kitten. When does it occur? When is olfaction and hearing present? At what age does a kitten's eyes open? What are kitten behavior patterns primarily adapted for (list 3)? It occurs from birth to 14 days old. Hearing starts at 5 days of age. Olfactory senses are present at birth and take 3 weeks to fully mature. Eyes open around 7-10 days of age. The patterns are adapted for acquiring food, staying warm, and receiving maternal care. 2. In a multi-cat household, what do cats utilize in order to minimize conflict? An avoidance-based hierarchy 3. Please explain what a cat would look like if he were exhibiting an offensive threat. Closed mouth, body forward, looking at opponent with constricted pupils, ears flattened halfway down, back leg extended. 4. What is extinction? Please provide an example of when you might use extinction to modify a behavior. Extinction is when you stop providing reinforcement or escape contingency for a previously reinforced response causes the behavior to decrease. An example would be ignoring your dog when it jumps up on you instead of petting it (reinforcing it). 5. What is the difference between deprivation and satiation? When is a dog most motivated? Deprivation is withholding a reinforcer to increase relevant learning and performance. Satiation is consuming a substantial amount of a reinforcer which temporarily decreases relevant learning and performance. Dogs are the most motivated before and after meals. 6. What are the three categories of cat sounds? Provide an example of each. Murmur patterns, vowel patterns, and strained intensity sounds. Purring is a murmur pattern. A vowel pattern is the meow. Strained intensity sounds include hissing. 7. In addition to keeping clean, what are three reasons that cats groom? Spreads oil from the skin onto the fur to help waterproof it, they also groom to keep cool, and to form a bond between kittens and their mother. 8. Why do cats respond to catnip? Do all cats respond? Would a 4-week-old kitten respond to catnip? Catnip contains an oil that elicits the antic response when the cat smells it. Response varies with different individual cats. The kitten would not respond because responsiveness to catnip does not develop until around 3 months of age.
