chapter 8 Flashcards
Animals use ______________ when searching for food (vision, olfaction, hearing)
Combo of sensory systems
Bees trained to use _____________________ had highest feeding performance
Visual and odor cues
Use of multiple sensroy cues in bees _______________________
facilitates efficient feeding
Grey mouse lemurs use vision, olfaction, and hearing to locate prey. Detection is highest when _________________________
a) olfaction
b) Hearing
c) Vision
d) Smell
visual cues present
Evolution of behavioral and morphological adaptations in prey to avoid detection is called?
a) search image
b) optimal diet model
c) optimal behavior
d) cryptic coloration
Cryptic coloration
COUNTERADAPTATIONS in predators for better detection is called?
Co-evolutionary arms race
Distinctive visual features of an object like single prey type (facilitates ability to find cryptic prey)
Ex) eye of the fish stands out (this allows predator to notice fish that is camouflaged)
This is called
a) optimal diet model
b) co-evolutionary arms race
c) cryptic coloration
d) search image
Search image
Noncryptic prey ______ _________
a) found slower
b) found faster
c) Couldn’t find
found faster
Search time for noncryptic prey _______________
a) visualize more
b) vocalize more
c) increased with experience
d) decreased with experience
decreased with experience
What REDUCES predator hunting efficiency. Predator efficiency can increase with EXPERIENCE
Cryptic coloration
Predicts the food types an animal should include in its diet this is called?
a) optimal diet model
b) co-evolutionary arms race
c) cryptic coloration
d) search image
Optimal diet model
What assumes natural selection feeding behaviors that MAXIMIZES FITNESS?
a) optimal diet model
b) co-evolutionary arms race
c) cryptic coloration
d) search image
e) Optimal foraging theory
Optimal foraging theory
What assumes FITNESS WHILE FEEDING INCREASES with energy intake rate and OPTIMAL BEHAVIOR?
a) optimal diet model
b) co-evolutionary arms race
c) cryptic coloration
d) search image
e) Optimal foraging theory
Optimal foraging theory
Behavior that MAXIMIZES fitness is called?
a) optimal diet model
b) co-evolutionary arms race
c) cryptic coloration
d) optimal behavior
e) Optimal foraging theory
OPTIMAL BEHAVIOR
What are the well known OFT models?
a) diet model
b) patch use model
c) optimal foraging theory
d) a and b
Diet model
Patch-use model
1) Foragers maximize fitness by MAXIMIZING ENERGY INTAKE RATE
2) Food items encountered ONE BY ONE in proportion to abundance
3) Food items ranked by their PROFITABILITY
These are the assumptions used in which model
a) diet model
b) co-evolutionary arms race
c) cryptic coloration
d) search image
e) Optimal foraging theory
Diet model
(OFT Diet model )
________________ = Time between prey encounters
a) optimal diet model
b) co-evolutionary arms race
c) cryptic coloration
d) search image
e) Optimal foraging theory
f) search time
search time
(OFT DIET MODEL)
__________________ = time to MANIPULATE item prior to consumption
a) handling time
b) co-evolutionary arms race
c) cryptic coloration
d) search image
e) Optimal foraging theory
f) search time
Handling time
(OFT DIET MODEL)
_______________= ENERGY/ handling time
a) handling time
b) profitability
c) cryptic coloration
d) search image
e) Optimal foraging theory
f) search time
Profitability
Forager has NARROW DIET is called?
a) specialist
b) co-evolutionary arms race
c) cryptic coloration
d) search image
e) Optimal foraging theory
f) search time
Specialist
Forager consumes WIDE VARIETY OF ITEMS is called?
a) specialist
b) generalist
c) cryptic coloration
d) search image
e) Optimal foraging theory
f) search time
Generalist
The diet model example
The optimal diet is to always consume types A,B,C while always ignoring D and E