The study of grazing behavior in goats

Abstract

All living beings live their lives according to a scenario imposed by two programs: a hereditary one, due to the genetic code that includes the whole phylogenetic experience of the species from which the organism is part, and a second program stored in the brain that represents the amount of knowledge accumulated by the individual after confrontation with its environment. Behavior therefore has a dual causality: exogenous and endogenous, to the extent that it is dependent on external stimulation factors, but also on internal factors capable of triggering and justifying at the same time the emergence of a motivation, a pulse. In triggering and conducting behavior is required the concurrent participation of internal and external stimuli, whose synchronized actions will cause the critical threshold to be exceeded in intensity.