﻿LECTURE 
  VI. 
  

   ANIMAL 
  BEHAVIOUR 
  

  

  1. 
  What 
  Is 
  Behaviour? 
  2. 
  Diverse 
  Views 
  as 
  to 
  Animal 
  Be- 
  

   haviour. 
  3. 
  Activities 
  of 
  Unicellular 
  Organisms. 
  4. 
  Spe- 
  

   cial 
  Case 
  of 
  Shell-building 
  among 
  Arenaceous 
  Foraminifera, 
  

   5. 
  Reflex 
  Actions. 
  6. 
  Tropisms. 
  7. 
  Non-intelligent 
  

   Experimentation, 
  8. 
  Instinctive 
  Behaviour. 
  9. 
  Theories 
  

   of 
  Instinct. 
  10. 
  Evidence 
  of 
  Intelligent 
  Behaviour. 
  11. 
  

   Secondary 
  Simplifications 
  of 
  Behaviour. 
  12. 
  Rational 
  Con- 
  

   duct. 
  13. 
  General 
  Impressions 
  of 
  Animal 
  Behaviour. 
  

  

  IN 
  our 
  preceding 
  studies 
  we 
  reached 
  the 
  conclusion 
  that 
  

   a 
  matter-and-motion 
  description 
  of 
  living 
  creatures 
  is 
  far 
  

   from 
  being 
  adequate, 
  that 
  it 
  does 
  not 
  grip 
  the 
  kernel. 
  While 
  

   organisms 
  are 
  collocations 
  of 
  matter 
  and 
  energy, 
  there 
  has 
  

   welled 
  up 
  within 
  them 
  a 
  new 
  aspect 
  of 
  reality 
  which 
  de- 
  

   mands 
  other 
  than 
  mechanical, 
  chemical, 
  and 
  physical 
  con- 
  

   cepts. 
  Wherein 
  the 
  newness 
  precisely 
  consists 
  we 
  have 
  not 
  

   discovered 
  ; 
  but 
  we 
  recognise 
  the 
  living 
  creature 
  as 
  a 
  historic 
  

   being 
  which 
  has 
  enregistered 
  the 
  experiences 
  and 
  experi- 
  

   ments 
  of 
  the 
  past, 
  which 
  trades 
  to 
  good 
  purpose 
  with 
  time, 
  

   which 
  has 
  its 
  conative 
  bow 
  often 
  bent. 
  In 
  the 
  hope 
  of 
  a 
  

   further 
  appreciation 
  of 
  the 
  significance 
  of 
  life 
  we 
  turn 
  now 
  

   to 
  a 
  more 
  systematic 
  consideration 
  of 
  animal 
  behaviour. 
  

  

  1. 
  What 
  Is 
  Behaviour? 
  

  

  The 
  movements 
  of 
  the 
  planets 
  in 
  their 
  courses 
  afford 
  an 
  

   object-lesson 
  of 
  orderliness 
  on 
  a 
  grand 
  scale, 
  and 
  yet 
  the 
  least 
  

   in 
  the 
  realm 
  of 
  organisms 
  is 
  greater 
  than 
  they 
  in 
  being 
  

   an 
  agent. 
  The 
  movements 
  of 
  a 
  rolling 
  stone 
  are 
  completely 
  

  

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