The most noticeable behaviour of the Lion's behaviour is its various calls and roars between its own species and to communicate with other animals. Variances in volume, intensity, tempo and tone including roars, grunts, moans, growls, snarls, meows, purrs, hums, puffs and woofs are all vital to accurate communication. This behaviour is Innate and it a communication behaviour
Lionesses typically rub their scent on their male partner before breeding. This is a display of courtship and is an important part of the Lion's mating ritual. This behaviour is innate and is an example of Reproductive behaviour
Female Lions have been known to kill the cubs of rival cubs, yet will strongly protect cubs of their own pride. Infanticide is extremely common with the males killing of the younger cubs so that mating can continue with the cub's mother. This behaviour is Innate and is a form of Competitive behaviours
The dominance hierarchy of a pride involves 6 related females and 2 or 3 males that have joined the pride from somewhere else. The pride is rarely found together unless it is a mother with her cubs. Between females there is no hierarchy or any particular bonding between males and females.
Within a pride's territory many lions can be found 'passing through', members of the pack is displayed through a greeting between members. Yet if there is a threatening male or female in the area, pride members are known to roar aggressively at this new comer. This is an innate behaviour used as a social interruption in territorial behaviour.
Young cubs learn skills such as hunting and climbing trees by watching other, older members of the pack. This behaviour is learned and is Observational learning.
Animal behavior is the connection between the molecular and physiological aspects of biology and the ecological. Behaviour is one of the most important properties of animal life, it plays a critical role in biological adaptations. For the same reasons that we study the universe and subatomic particles there is intrinsic interest in the study of animals which garners results applicable to human behaviour.
While the study of animal behavior is important as a scientific field on its own, our science has made important contributions to other disciplines with applications to the study of human behavior, to the neurosciences, to the environment and resource management, to the study of animal welfare and to the education of future generations of scientists.
Although people have long been fascinated by the behavior of animals, the formal discipline of animal behaviour (ethology) is actually relatively new, dating to the work of Konrad Lorenz in Austria in the 1930s. Application of ethological principles and methods to the study of animal welfare is an even newer endeavour has generated a great deal of stimulating discussion and controversy during its short history.
Ethology is a discipline of science designed to recorded and form theories about evolution, adaptation, mechanisms, and development of animal behaviour. Such studies in the Grassland biome have included the work of Craig Packer. A ethologist majoring in the study of Lions he is an expert in this field, so when the Tanzanian population began to expand into a large farming community and the Lion population was threatened he is a key researcher in preserving the species, as Tanzania is home to almost half the wild Lion's population.
These studies have allowed animal populations to survive and the human urbanisation of area's to continue, the work of ethologists such as Packer is vital to the cooperation and survival of all species.
While the study of animal behavior is important as a scientific field on its own, our science has made important contributions to other disciplines with applications to the study of human behavior, to the neurosciences, to the environment and resource management, to the study of animal welfare and to the education of future generations of scientists.
Although people have long been fascinated by the behavior of animals, the formal discipline of animal behaviour (ethology) is actually relatively new, dating to the work of Konrad Lorenz in Austria in the 1930s. Application of ethological principles and methods to the study of animal welfare is an even newer endeavour has generated a great deal of stimulating discussion and controversy during its short history.
Ethology is a discipline of science designed to recorded and form theories about evolution, adaptation, mechanisms, and development of animal behaviour. Such studies in the Grassland biome have included the work of Craig Packer. A ethologist majoring in the study of Lions he is an expert in this field, so when the Tanzanian population began to expand into a large farming community and the Lion population was threatened he is a key researcher in preserving the species, as Tanzania is home to almost half the wild Lion's population.
These studies have allowed animal populations to survive and the human urbanisation of area's to continue, the work of ethologists such as Packer is vital to the cooperation and survival of all species.