3/2 Lecture - Behavior Group Living

Question 1

Community Ecology

Answer 1

Study of interactions among species in communities on many spatial and temporal scales

Question 2

Community

Answer 2

Assemblages of interacting populations of the species living within a particular habitat

Question 3

Disease Ecology

Answer 3

Study of the interaction of the behavior & ecology of hosts within the biology of pathogens.

• Influenced by 3 factors:
  Environment, Host, Parasite.

Question 4

Sociobiology

Answer 4

examines behavior in evolutionary context

- social evolution

Question 5

Socioecology

Answer 5

Examines how ecology influences behavior

Question 6

Crypsis

Answer 6

Camouflage, often associated with primates who are nocturnal, solitary, or live in small groups

Question 7

2 Strategies to reduce Predation*

Answer 7

1) Crypsis

2) Group Living

Question 8

strategy

Answer 8

a set of traits that are designed to solve a particular adaptive problem

Question 9

Mating effort

Answer 9

all of the activities that are related to conception, including the effort required to find mates and gain access to them

Question 10

Parenting effort

Answer 10

all of the activities that are related to offspring care after conception occurs

Question 11

A female’s reproductive success depends on

Answer 11

her ability to obtain enough resources to support herself and her offspring.

Question 12

primiparous

Answer 12

First-time

Question 13

multiparous

Answer 13

females who have already produced offspring

Question 14

transitive

Answer 14

When females can defeat all the females ranked below them and none of the females ranked above them

Question 15

estrus

Answer 15

heat; heighted sexual arousal and activity