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A temporal model of animal behavior based on a fractality in the feeding ofDrosophila melanogaster

✍ Scribed by Ichiro Shimada; Yoshiyuki Kawazoe; Hiroaki Hara

Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Weight: 382 KB
Volume: 68
Category: Article
ISSN: 0340-1200
DOI: 10.1007/bf00200806

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✦ Synopsis

We present a new temporal model of animal behavior based on the ethological idea that the internal states of the individual essentially determine the behavior. The internal states, however, are conditioned by the external stimuli. This model, including environmental and internal parameters, predicts a fractal property of the behavior, that is, an inverse power law distribution of the duration. Being consistent with the model, we have found a fractal property of feeding in Drosophila melanogaster: The dwelling time of starved flies on food showed a clear inverse power law distribution. The dependence of the fractal dimension on the intensity of food stimuli has been observed, and the predicted change into an exponential distribution was proved.

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