Chapter 2 - Other Ways of Seeing The World

Question 1

Ecology considers animal behavior by considering what?

Answer 1

How animals behave in relationship to each other, and how animals behave in relation to their environment.

Question 2

Umwelt is

Answer 2

The external environment that an organism lives in (Outside)

Question 3

Innenwelt is…

Answer 3

The world as it is perceived and internalized (Inside)

Question 4

how does the tick understand a mammal?

Answer 4

1.DINNER! 2. A mammal to a tick is smell of butyric acid + warmth

Question 5

What is the Go-No Go test?

Answer 5

It was a test given to Pigeons(Ps), get food if they pecked when the light is on, no food + delay if they peck when light is off.

This is how RENY & EMMERTON discovered sensitivity to ultraviolet in Ps.

Question 6

What is a Pigeons vision like?

Answer 6

Looking upward = Ps have “normal” long-sighted vision
Looking down = Switch to this high res/acuity system (acuity is best at 10 cm).

Question 7

How many cones do Ps have?

Answer 7

They have 6 cones. But we learn with the go-no go test that they have no mixture of yellow + blue that a p will accept as green.

Question 8

SPETCH & FRIEDMAN (2006)

Answer 8

They trained Ps to discriminate and peck 1 or 2 objects (diff shapes/same color)

Question 9

WATANABE, SAKAMOTO, & WAKITA (1995)

Answer 9

They discovered that Ps could learn between Monet and Picasso paintings.

Question 10

What molecules are inhaled to the nose and bind to the olfactory mucosa?

Answer 10

Odrants

Question 11

What molecule is inhaled to the nose and bind to the olfactory mucosa?

Answer 11

Odorants

Question 12

Many animals use smell for ?

Answer 12

Communication, Navigation, & Recognizing others

Question 13

GRIFFIN (1986)

Answer 13

Discovered that when they are attacking/avoiding an obstacle it turns to a “buzz”

Question 14

DAWKINS

Answer 14

“I think bats hear in color”

Question 15

GROSSETETE & MOSS (1998)

Answer 15

Discovered same species can discriminate between a wing beating @41/min vs 50/min

Question 16

ROEDER & TREAT (1961) or CORCORAN & MASS (2017)

Answer 16

Discovered that when bats go to attack moths sense it and start making their own chirps to misjudge the distance.

Question 17

In the waggle dance Gould (1980)

Answer 17

Discovered that the bees’ complicated dance to communicate could be disrupted by disrupting the magnetic field.

Question 18

WALKER & BITTER MAN (1985; 1989)

Answer 18

Discovered bees can be trained to get food placed on a magnet

Question 19

VOWELS (1954)

Answer 19

Discovered ants use magnetic fields (Ants were trained to always “go North”)

Question 20

CAMLITEPE (2005)

Answer 20

Used magnets to change the field and found ants shifted their search in accordance with the magnet