Animal Behavior

Question 0

Interaction

Answer 0

Response to a stimuli from environment (biotic or abiotic)

Question 1

Behavior

Answer 1

How living things respond

Question 2

All genes are influenced by:

Answer 2

Genes, development, physiology, cost/benefit, natural selection

Question 3

What was required for natural selection to happen?

Answer 3

Variation(development, genes, physiology), and competition(limited resources)

Question 4

Niko Tinbergen ask 4 Q’s

Answer 4

Proximate=causation and development

Ultimate=function and evolution

Question 5

Types of innate behavior

Answer 5

Simple reflex, instinct, complex programmed behavior

Question 6

2 types of instinct

Answer 6

FAP (fixed action pattern) closed

Open-can be influenced

Question 7

3 types of rhythmic behaviors

Answer 7

Migration, circapian, night/day and dawn/dusk

Question 8

5 types of learned behavior

Answer 8

Imprinting, reasoning, play behavior, habituation, conditional

Question 9

2 types of conditional behavior

Answer 9

Operant-positive/negative reinforce

Classical-association

Question 10

4 types of social behaviors

Answer 10

Cooperation, competition, sexual, communication

Question 11

3 types of cooperation behaviors

Answer 11

Social-within species, coexistence, bees&ants

Altruistic-between family

Symbiotic-between diff species

Question 12

3 types of competition behaviors

Answer 12

Aggression, dominance hierarchy, territoriality

Question 13

Fitness

Answer 13

The ability to survive and reproduce

Question 14

5 types of sexual behaviors

Answer 14

Courtship, cheaters, monogamy, polygamy, polyandry

Question 15

How can a single gene be responsible for a complex behavior?

Answer 15

Stimulus->receptor->Enzyme so a reaction will/will not take place

Called integration

Question 16

Mutants

Answer 16

Allow studies to identify genes involved

Question 17

Knockout experiments

Answer 17

Reveal roles of specific genes

Question 18

Development and expression of behavior can be controlled by____.

Answer 18

Hormones

Question 19

Imprinting

Answer 19

Animal learns a set of stimuli during a critical/sensitive period, such as recognition of parents and offspring.

Question 20

Example of behavior resulting from inheritance and learning

Answer 20

Bird song

Question 21

Circadian rhythms

Answer 21

Physical, mental, and behavioral changes that follow a rough 24 hour cycle (physiology)

Question 22

In mammals the master circadian clock consists of 2 clusters of neurons called

Answer 22

The suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN)

Question 23

Homing

Answer 23

The ability To return to a specific location from long distances

Question 24

Anthropomorphism

Answer 24

Applying human characteristics to inanimate objects or non-human entities

Question 25

Behavior is shaped by ____\

Answer 25

Natural selection

Question 26

Cost

Answer 26

Energy , risk, opportunity

Question 27

Altruism

Answer 27

Behavior of an animal that benefits another at it’s own expense

Question 28

Inclusive fitness

Answer 28

Kin selection, eusocial, Hamilton’s rule

Question 29

Eusocial

Answer 29

A single female produces the offspring and non reproductive individuals help care for the young

Question 30

Hamilton’s rule

Answer 30

Cost<relatesness(benefit)

Question 31

Touch

Answer 31

Mechanical sensory

Question 32

Smell

Answer 32

Olfactory

Question 33

Kin selection

Answer 33

Cost of helping relatives fitness

Question 34

Inclusive fitness

Answer 34

Includes related individuals