Animal personalities

Question 1

whats inter plasticity?

Answer 1

individual vars between individuals

Question 2

whats intra plasticity?

Answer 2

variation within an individual

Question 3

whats optimality?

Answer 3

model of what the optimal response would be

Question 4

examples of inter var?

Answer 4

diet space and habitat use

Question 5

what can be assumed about individual var and the population var?

Answer 5

that between individual var can comprise the majority of a populations var

Question 6

what is phenotypic plasticity?

Answer 6

ability of an organisms to produce different phenotype depending on the environmental conditions

Question 7

what are reaction norms?

Answer 7

graphical representation of how a phenotype varies across an environment

Question 8

what does selection require ?

Answer 8

variation within a population

Question 9

what is heritability ?

Answer 9

phenotypic var that is dependant on genomic variation

Question 10

what the slope in reaction norms ?

Answer 10

individual reaction norms

Question 11

what the elevation in reaction norms?

Answer 11

average trait value

Question 12

what is personality?

Answer 12

consistant individual behavioural differences over time/and or / contexts (life history phases)

Question 13

whats behavioural syndrome?

Answer 13

correlations eg bigger might be more aggressive

Question 14

what are the 4 theories as to why personality is maintained within a population?

Answer 14

externally induced differences in states
freq dependant selection
spatio/temporal var in environment
non equilibrium dynamics

Question 15

whats external induced diff in state?

Answer 15

idea that animals states can influence behaviours, random life events in early life ie ticks infections over pop can cause diff behaviours

Question 16

whats freq dependant selection?

Answer 16

each behavioural type has equal mean fitness , depends on distribution in pop
too many stealers wouldn’t work

Question 17

whats genetic polymorphism?

Answer 17

have pure strategies they follow

Question 18

whats genetic monomorphism?

Answer 18

single genotype with mixed strategies

Question 19

whats addaptive co existance ?

Answer 19

fitness depends on the surroundings
diff selection pressures would favour diff behaviour
depends on orgs having a lack of plasticity

Question 20

whats non equilibrium dynamics?

Answer 20

ongoing oscillations/ flux in selection pressures

Question 21

what is critical anthropomorphism ?

Answer 21

when we are limited in understanding through being human

Question 22

whats the law of parsimony?

Answer 22

anything we observe should be explained by the simplest explanation