Swans were observed at Al and RR in the months of April and May, 2017. RR is found in the northern Melbourne suburb of Mill Park, in a suburban/urbanized area, its coordinates are 37.6658° S, 145.0642° E. Al is found next to the CBD in Melbourne, and the Al Lake is found at these coordinates 37.848°S 144.971°E. Both locations have body of water with one or more islands found within.
Three different feeding styles were observed and recorded, foraging in the water, grazing on the land and feeding directly from humans. Foraging in water has two different behaviours, the first is the deep foraging when the C. atractus elongate it’s neck straight down into the water, the second is the shallow foraging, placing the bill into the water moving it
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If the weather became unfavourable to visitors or observers, for the hour before and anytime within the observational hours, for example, raining, hail, strong winds, etc., the observations for the day would be cancelled. Starting the observations at 2p.m. running for duration of two hours, the different foraging behaviours were recorded of one randomly selected adult. The foraging behaviour was recorded either of the three which are presented above, the timing would start once the food was in contact with the bill or once the behaviour was known to be feeding, e.g. deep water foraging, with its head and neck being under the water. The timing one behaviour would be stopped if the swan either started portraying a different feeding stagey or there is no feeding behaviour observed for 20 seconds past the last feeding …show more content…
It was found that foraging and location seperatly didn’t affect duration of feeding (Two-way ANOVA, F = 2.0028, DF = 1, 122, p-value>0.01394)( Two-way ANOVA, F = 1.8306, DF = 1, 122, p-value>0.1786). The interaction between location and foraging behaviour does have an effect on duration of feeding, these findings support the hypothesis (Two-way ANOVA, F = 32.23, DF = 2, 122, p-value<0.0261). As seen in Figure 1 & 2 for Al the significant results come from an increased mean of water foraging. For RR the significances comes from difference from water as seen in both Figures. Looking at Figure 2 you see that there is a substainal difference between land and human, showing that human directed feeding behaviour is the dominant feeding
After results, it was concluded that isopods prefer normal temperature conditions over warm conditions. We created these environments by adding water onto filter papers with the accounted for temperature measurements. The reason for the results could be seen in a usual isopod environment, it is usually dark, fresh, and moist, and the normal water temperature being the closest to that was the reason for their choosing. The Isopods seemed to locate the appropriate environment by the use of their antennas. For the investigation the normal water and warm water temperatures were independent variables. The observations were the control. The isopods behavior served as the dependent variables. The isopod behavior would be classified as movement in response to a cooler temperature environment taxis. All in all the hypothesis, “If the isopods are exposed to normal and warm temperatures then the normal temperature will be preferred” proved to be
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Deborah L. Duffy, Yuying Hsu, James A. Serpell ,Applied Animal Behavior Science - 1 December 2008 (Vol. 114, Issue 3, Pages 441-460, DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2008.04.006)
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Ask the students, “How do you think the duckling feels at the end of the story?”
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