Biological Explanations of Social Behavior in Animals

Question 1

what are the 2 foraging strategies?

Answer 1

solitary

group

Question 2

what is the difference between language, non-verbal cues, visual cues

Answer 2

language- spoken

Non-verbal cues- can understand feelings of others

visual cues- (dear scrapping tree to mark territory)

Question 3

give information to themselves (e.g. bats echo location)

Answer 3

auto-communication

Question 4

anthropomorphism

Answer 4

attributing human characteristics to animals

think ANTs THROw POo people are MORPHs

Question 5

communication through touch and movement

Answer 5

somatosensory communication

think Touch sense = somatosensory

Question 6

what are the 3 mating strategies

Answer 6

1) Random Mating
2) Assortative mating
3) dis-assortative mating (non-assortative mating

(Mating is RAD)

Question 7

all individuals in species are equally likely to mate

Answer 7

random mating

Question 8

individuals that possess a certain trait are more likely to mate with members that possess that same trait

(large mate with large, small mate with small)

Answer 8

assortative mating

Question 9

Individuals that possess a certain trait are more like to mate with members that have a different trait

(large with small or blue with black)

Answer 9

Dis-assortative mating

Question 10

what is one possible danger of assortative mating

Answer 10

in-breeding

Question 11

term that describes the behavior of an organism to give rise to an evolutionary advantage of a species or

ALTRUISM HELPING ALL INDIVIDUALS including self

EX. breading to increase frequency of a trait that will help your species survive)

Answer 11

inclusive fitness

like altruism but specific to ones species and may involve evolution

Question 12

Theory that tells us those with best traits for environment will survive and pass on offspring and those traits will become more common in successive generations

Answer 12

Evolutionary game theory

Question 13

what are the 2 components that are important to evolutionary game theory

Answer 13

1) Reproduction

2) Environment

Question 14

what is the main difference between game theory and evolutionary game theory

Answer 14

evolutionary game theory- Participants do not necessarily look at the strategies of other participants

Question 15

copying behavioral characteristics of parents

Answer 15

imprinting

Question 16

when natural selection acts at the level of the group(entire population)

Answer 16

Group selection

Question 17

what makes a foraging behavior optimal?

Answer 17

when net energy gain is maximized

(energy gained- energy spent= net energy gain)

favors energy spent that increased reproductive success