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A conceptual framework for the analysis of animal behaviour: an hierarchical script-episodes-gestures structure

A conceptual framework for the analysis of animal behaviour: an hierarchical... acta ethologica https://doi.org/10.1007/s10211-023-00413-9 COMMENTAR Y A conceptual framework for the analysis of animal behaviour: an hierarchical script‑episodes‑gestures structure David Eilam Received: 14 November 2022 / Revised: 12 January 2023 / Accepted: 23 January 2023 © The Author(s) under exclusive licence to ISPA, CRL 2023 The search for the units that constitute behaviour and the Later, the term ‘behavioural variability’ was replaced (or temporal organization of these units present the main chal- used interchangeably) with the term ‘behavioural flexibil- lenge in behavioural analyses, manifested as a search for ity’, reflecting the increasing understanding that behavioural the ‘atomic’ (smallest structural) units and merging them variability has an adaptive value (Bell 2014; Westneat et al. into relatively fixed behavioural patterns. Early studies in 2015; see also Lea et al. 2020 for review), and is an impor- ethology focused on what were considered to be hard-wired, tant behavioural component (Arocha 2021) that has been simple, and indivisible ‘instinctive’ behaviours, each elicited preserved in the evolution of behavioural patterns, much like by a specific stimulus and then carried out to completion. genetic variability (Eilam 2015). The importance of behav- It was then suggested that instincts are relatively complex ioural variability is also reflected in the growing field of innate behaviours, with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png acta ethologica Springer Journals

A conceptual framework for the analysis of animal behaviour: an hierarchical script-episodes-gestures structure

Eilam, David
acta ethologica , Volume 26 (1) – Feb 1, 2023
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acta ethologica https://doi.org/10.1007/s10211-023-00413-9 COMMENTAR Y A conceptual framework for the analysis of animal behaviour: an hierarchical script‑episodes‑gestures structure David Eilam Received: 14 November 2022 / Revised: 12 January 2023 / Accepted: 23 January 2023 © The Author(s) under exclusive licence to ISPA, CRL 2023 The search for the units that constitute behaviour and the Later, the term ‘behavioural variability’ was replaced (or temporal organization of these units present the main chal- used interchangeably) with the term ‘behavioural flexibil- lenge in behavioural analyses, manifested as a search for ity’, reflecting the increasing understanding that behavioural the ‘atomic’ (smallest structural) units and merging them variability has an adaptive value (Bell 2014; Westneat et al. into relatively fixed behavioural patterns. Early studies in 2015; see also Lea et al. 2020 for review), and is an impor- ethology focused on what were considered to be hard-wired, tant behavioural component (Arocha 2021) that has been simple, and indivisible ‘instinctive’ behaviours, each elicited preserved in the evolution of behavioural patterns, much like by a specific stimulus and then carried out to completion. genetic variability (Eilam 2015). The importance of behav- It was then suggested that instincts are relatively complex ioural variability is also reflected in the growing field of innate behaviours, with

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