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Territorial Behavior

California Sea Lion

Behaviors

Suckling

This innate behavior is shown by sea lions in their mating boundaries. Male sea lions make these boundaries at the beginning of the mating season to keep other males away from their mates. To establish their boundaries, sea lions will bark and beat their chest. Fights occasionally break out between males, but they are usually not fatal. The creation of these barriers helps the sea lions be able to reproduce, keeping tghe species going.

This innate behavior is done by mammals and involves a baby knowing how to suck milk from their mother's breast. This helps the baby survive because milk provides nutrients that the baby sea lion would otherwise be unable to get.

Territorial Sea Lion Behavior

Behaviors

All organisms do certain actions to get the necessary resources they need in order to survive (food, shelter, and mates). These actions are called behaviors, and can be divided into two groups.

Migration

Habituation

This learned behavior involves an organism learning to ignore something or getting use to it and is primarily exhibited by sea lions in captivity. These sea lions habituate to their environment, becoming less active. To combat this, the zookeepers have to stimulate them, usually through rotating methods of water enrichment. In the natural world, habituation helps organisms not exert energy on unnecessary stimuli, allowing them to save it when they actually need it (hunting food, escaping predators, etc.), but in this case it isn't that useful.

This innate behavior, primarily exhibited by male sea lions occurs on an annual basis. In the spring, they travel southward to southern California and Mexico to breed with the female sea lions. After breeding season is over, the males travel north towards British Columbia where there is more food. Not much is known about female migratory patterns, but they tend to stay near the breeding rookeries. This behavior helps male sea lions find more resources, and helps them breed with the females so their species can survive.

Learned Behaviors

Innate/Instinctual Behaviors

  • These behaviors are learned by organisms through experiences.
  • These are behaviors that animals are born with.
  • Some examples of learned behaviors include habituation, imprinting, and classical conditioning.
  • Some Examples of Innate behaviors include migration, hibernation, and estivation.

Sea lions exhibit both innate and learned behaviors.

Trial and Error

Courtship

This learned behavior involves learning from your mistakes. A study was published in 2001, in which two sea lions were given symbols to match, and if they correctly matched a pair, then they were rewarded with fish. Through trial and error, both Rocky and Rio were both able to successfully match all of the pairs. In a natural environment, this trial and error behavior would help an animal not to continually expend energy on the same action if it had negative results the first time. Therefore, the animal would be able to expend less energy while accomplishing the same goal, and be able to save their energy.

This innate behavior is used by females to attract males during mating season. The female initiates courtship by showing herself to the male in submissive postures. If she is successful in getting the males attention, then they will breed. This behavior helps keep the species going because it allows females to reproduce faster.

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