Pavlovian fear conditioning has been extensively used to study the behavioral and neural basis of defensive systems. In a typical procedure, a cue is paired with foot shock, and subsequent cue presentation elicits freezing, a behavior theoretically linked to predator detection. Studies have since shown a fear conditioned cue can elicit locomotion, a behavior that - in addition to jumping, and rearing - is theoretically linked to imminent or occurring predation. A criticism of studies observing fear conditioned cue-elicited locomotion is that responding is non-associative. We gave 24 rats (12 female) Pavlovian fear discrimination over a baseline of reward seeking, an experimental design with full controls for associative learning. TTL-triggered cameras captured 5 behavior frames/s prior to and during cue presentation. We scored 86,400 frames for nine discrete behaviors spanning reward, passive fear, and active fear. Temporal ethograms show that a fear conditioned cue elicits locomotion, jumping, and rearing that is maximal towards cue offset, when foot shock is imminent. A fear conditioned cue further suppresses reward-related behavior, and elicits freezing in a sex-specific manner. The differing temporal profiles and independent expression of these behaviors reveal a fear conditioned cue to orchestrate a rich and intricate suite of behaviors.
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