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During spring break, you will observe one animal for two hours in the wild (no pets) and construct an ethogram. Brown (1975) defines an ethogram as a set of comprehensive descriptions of the characteristic behavior patterns of a species. An ethogram is a result of many hours of naturalistic observation. Ethologists first used ethograms, and eventually, psychologists began to use ethograms. Ethograms can be used for a variety of purposes. Ethograms may be used to catalog an animal's behavior, study the duration of behaviors under different conditions, establish a hierarchy of behaviors, or, as you will do in your field study, look for behavior patterns. You will observe an animal for two hours and record its behavior. Before you start your two-hour observation session, watch the animal for 10 - 20 minutes and look for the most frequently occurring behaviors. After this observation, choose five behaviors that you will record. The beginning of your field report should state the time of day, temperature, cloud cover, and a brief description of the habitat the animal you are studying is in. Next, you should give a detailed physical description of the animal. Find the scientific name for the animal. If you do not know the exact genus and species, try to find the scientific name for the family or order. Example: Let us say you are studying a street rat. You are not sure what genius and species it is, but you do know it is a rat, so you find the scientific name for the family that rats belong to. Next, have your two matrices that were described above. The last part of your report should consist of an analysis of the behavior. For this analysis, your primary directive is to find a pattern, if one exists. This analysis may be purely descriptive, or you can do a chi-square test for independence. Finally, you should have a sketch or picture of the animal that you studied. The text of your report must be typed. The matrices can be written or typed. The text of your paper (excluding matrices, cover page, and sketch) should be 3-5 pages and will be turned in on Blackboard. The report will be due Friday, 3.24.23, by 11:59 PM after spring break; 10