Question

Part D: Time budget (20 marks) Develop a time budget for the species of your choice. The time budget must include at least three different behaviours, from five different animals and cover a period of 10 minutes each. In your time budget, include a brief description of each behaviour and thumbnail sketches of each key behaviour.

Answer 1

TIME BUDGET:-when studying home cage behavior an essential first step is to perform a 24h time budget. This provide an overview of when and where animals spend their time, and whether certain behaviors are particularly common or rare, and whether circadian rhytms in activity, feeding or sleeping are altered