ZooBio S24 Midterm Practice

You can produce reliable, repeatable behavioral data by recording your ad lib observations and then converting these into scored focal animal samples based on a standardized ethogram after the session.

• True

• False

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Behavioral Data

If someone records ad lib observations and then converts their notes into scored focal animal samples based on a standardized ethogram after the session they are introducing significant bias and misrepresenting their methods.

• True

• False

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Behavioral Data

Group Scan Sampling

• Focuses on comparing the state of every group member at instantaneous points.

• Most often used as a supplement to other methods.

• Intensive and often limited to a single animal or specific behavior of interest.

• May be used as an instantaneous alternative to Continuous Focal Animal Sampling.

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Behavioral Data

Interval Sampling

• Focuses on comparing the state of every group member at instantaneous points.

• Most often used as a supplement to other methods.

• Intensive and often limited to a single animal or specific behavior of interest.

• May be used as an instantaneous alternative to Continuous Focal Animal Sampling.

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Behavioral Data

Focal Animal Sampling

• Focuses on comparing the state of every group member at instantaneous points.

• Most often used as a supplement to other methods.

• Intensive and often limited to a single animal or specific behavior of interest.

• May be used as an instantaneous alternative to Continuous Focal Animal Sampling.

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Behavioral Data

All Occurrence Sampling

• Focuses on comparing the state of every group member at instantaneous points.

• Most often used as a supplement to other methods.

• Intensive and often limited to a single animal or specific behavior of interest.

• May be used as an instantaneous alternative to Continuous Focal Animal Sampling.

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ZooBio

Behavioral Data

Choose the simplest and most reliable method to capture patterns in common, state behaviors.

• Instantaneous/Scan/Interval Sampling

• Instantaneous All Occurrence Sampling

• Any of the above

• Continuous Focal Animal Sampling

• Continuous All Occurrence Sampling

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ZooBio

Behavioral Data

Choose the simplest and most reliable method to capture patterns in rare, event behaviors.

• Instantaneous/Scan/Interval Sampling

• Continuous Focal Animal Sampling

• All Occurrence Sampling

• Any of the above

• None of the above

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ZooBio

Behavioral Data

Choose the simplest and most reliable method to capture patterns in feeding behavior/choices?

• Instantaneous/Scan/Interval Sampling

• Continuous Focal Animal Sampling

• All Occurrence Sampling

• Any of the above

• None of the above

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ZooBio

Behavioral Data

Which method did the researchers use to collect the data represented by this figure?

• Continuous

• Instantaneous

• Ad Lib

• Any of the above

• None of the above

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Behavioral Data