behavior

The nobility and churchmen determined the predominant social attitudes, values, and patterns of thought and behavior.

Their worship was linked to the rituals connected with one’s progress through life - birth, marriage, and death - and with invoking protection against danger, making prophecies, and promoting healing, rather than to any code of behavior.

In thinking of ice so far from the Sun, it is important not to judge its behavior from that of the much warmer ice we know on Earth; at the temperatures of the outer solar system, ice on the surface is nearly as hard as rock, and behaves similarly.

However, behavior is by far the most important factor in thermoregulation.

Thigmothermy is a behavior present in most amphibians, although pressing against the ground serves a dual purpose: heat absorption by conductivity and water absorption through the skin.

Avoidance behavior occurs whenever physiological and morphological adaptations are insufficient to maintain body temperature within the vital range.

Nocturnal activity in amphibians with low tolerance for high ambient temperatures is a typical thermoregulatory behavior of avoidance.

Seasonal avoidance behavior is extremely important in many amphibians.

Though Hubbell and Johnson were interested in how bee behavior might affect colony distributions, they recognized that the availability of potential nest sites for colonies could also affect distributions.

The principal elements in behavioral thermoregulation are basking (heliothermy), heat exchange with substrates such as rock or earth (thigmothermy), and diurnal and annual avoidance behaviors, which include moving to shelter during the day for cooling and hibernating or estivating (reducing activity during cold or hot weather, respectively).

One of the problems in providing a clear definition of play is that it involves the same behaviors that take place in other circumstance--dominance, predation, competition, and real fighting.

Thus, whether play occurs or not depends on the intention of the animals, and the intentions are not always clear from behaviors alone.

Play can also provide practice in social behaviors needed for courtship and mating.

Learning appropriate social behaviors is especially important for species that live in groups, like young monkeys that needed to learn to control selfishness and aggression and to understand the give-and-take involved in social groups.

This is especially true when play consists of practicing normal aggressive or predator behaviors.