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Animal behavior:

Morphology:

Physical structure of an animal

Physiology:

Function of morphology


Behavior:

Action in response to a stimulus

Adaptive behavior:

Behavior that increases the animals reproductive success either directly or indirectly

Non-adaptive behavior:

Behavior like altruism that doesn't contribute to reproductive or survival success


Proximate causes:

Event closest to or responsible for a happening.
For behavior, the proximate causes are what stimulus causes the behavior and what the animal does in response to the stimulus


Ultimate causes:

The real reason something happened.


Foraging:

Behavior associated by eating food

Optimal foraging model:

Foraging model providing the most food for the least work or most net energy


Altruism:

Altruism can evolve when "Benefit of a behavior > Cost on individual"


Inclusive fitness:

Expected fitness of an individual includes the direct fitness or the personal fitness and indirect fitness which depends on who it interacts with socially