Communication

Question 1

communication

Answer 1

transfer of info from a sender to reveiver

Question 2

signal

Answer 2

communicated stimuli that have been shaped by natural selection

Question 3

discrete signal

Answer 3

all or nothing (on or off)

Question 4

graded signal

Answer 4

multiple levels / variable ways

Question 5

composite signal

Answer 5

two or more signals

Question 6

cue

Answer 6

communicated stimuli that have not been specifically shaped

Question 7

display

Answer 7

a stereotyped sequence of behaviors that has a signaling function

Question 8

metacommunication

Answer 8

signal about a signal (context for a signal)

Question 9

functions of communication

Answer 9

reproduction
alarm calls
aggression/status
foraging
recognition
group spacing/coordination
advertising
soliciting care
synch hatching

Question 10

alarm calls

Answer 10

audible, chemical or visual

Question 11

aggression/status

Answer 11

instead of actual fights if possible

Question 12

foraging

Answer 12

signaling to where food is

Question 13

honeybees

Answer 13

von Frisch

200m = waggle dance

Question 14

recognition

Answer 14

identification

species specific, pop/group, individual

Question 15

group spacing/coordination

Answer 15

know where everyone is (howler monkies)

Question 16

advertising

Answer 16

toxicity

Question 17

soliciting care

Answer 17

asking for food or finding offspring

Question 18

handicap hypothesis

Answer 18

honest signals should be costly and only able to be produced by fit individuals

Question 19

evolution of communication

Answer 19

ritualization & cumulative selection

Question 20

ritualizaion

Answer 20

evolution of communicative behaviors from non-communicative ones (evolution of comm)

Question 21

cumulative selection

Answer 21

add components to a signal (evolution of comm)

Question 22

cooperative communcation

Answer 22

beneficial to sender and receiver

Question 23

deceitful communication

Answer 23

beneficial to sender, not receiver

Question 24

incidental/exploitation communcation

Answer 24

beneficial to receiver, not sender

Question 25

spiteful communication

Answer 25

costly to both sender and receiver

Question 26

illegitimate receivers

Answer 26

individuals that are not the intended receivers of a call

bats learning to go for frogs by learning their mating call

Question 27

intention movements

Answer 27

spreading the lips before biting, crouching before lunging

Question 28

displacement behaviors

Answer 28

behaviors done in conflict situations when an animal is not sure how to behave.
feather-rubbing in ducks during courtship eventually becomes an integral part of the process.