Ecological Behaviors

Question 1

What is the study of ecology

Answer 1

It is the study of the interactions between animals with each other or their environment. Interactions with other species members or not

Question 2

What is the benefits of behaviors

Answer 2

Animals that engaging complex behaviors survive and reproduce because they inherited genes that helps them to be successful in a particular environment

Question 3

What causes jeans to either increase or decrease in relative frequency

Answer 3

Jeans that provide adoptive advantages will increase in relative frequency what are those that don’t will decrease

Question 4

Competitive behavior

Answer 4

Competition for food, space, mates and resources between members within a population.

Mail bighorn sheep spar until one gives up, the winner gets to meet with no interference

Question 5

Agnostic behavior

Answer 5

Threatening or combative behaviors between two animals from the same species

Cats aspiring each other for the territory

Question 6

Territorial behavior

Answer 6

To adopt an area and control it against the same species

Birds fighting picking and dropping for an area to nest

Question 7

Dominance hierarchy’s

Answer 7

Animals living in one group develop hierarchy were the top ranked animal gets all resources with no conflict

Dominant hen packs of other hens to maintain their dominance

Question 8

For aging behaviors

Answer 8

Finding an eating food when resources are limited

Question 9

Migratory behaviors

Answer 9

Moving long distances season lead to new locations to increase chance of survival

Like geese traveling seasonally

Question 10

Circadian rhythms

Answer 10

A cycle like sleeping or waking that occurs daily. Some cycles are seasonally O yearly and they are influenced by;
– environment
– daylight
– scarcity food

Squirrels sleep 24 hours when there is a normal life cycle but they sleep for 24 hours and 21 minutes in continual darkness

Question 11

Courting behaviors

Answer 11

Behavior an animal engages in to attract a mate, there’s specific to species.

Mail frigatebirds display the Red Sox to attract females mates

Question 12

Nurturing behavior

Answer 12

when parents provide care to their offsprings after birth like providing food protection and teaching them skills for survival

these animals have less offspring‘s due to the high rate of survival of the litter

Question 13

Communicating with pheromones

Answer 13

spreading highly specific chemicals that are specific to species deliver information
“can’t be detected by other animals “
“ Used for reproduction or warning of attacks and predators”

Female silk moths use pheromones to attract mates

Question 14

Auditory communication

Answer 14

Sounds that are specific to send messages
faster in efficient
Star can be detected by other animals*

A baby zebra cutting it’s packed after being followed by lion

Question 15

cooperative behaviors

Answer 15

Altruistic behaviors/an action that benefits another member of the cost of the member itself

Bees protecting the queen when anyone touches her

Question 16

What does kin selection theory

Answer 16

A theory that explains altruistic behaviors.
Animals ensure that their genes are passed on to the next generation so they protect one of them the different has the jeans

Question 17

Advantages and disadvantages of migration

Answer 17

It increases chance of survival

Increases the chances of meditation
High levels of energy needed

Question 18

advantages and disadvantages of pheromones 

Answer 18

can’t be detected by other animals

Has a limited range of cues compared to visual and auditory cues

Question 19

Advantages and disadvantages of nurturing

Answer 19

Butter transfer the offsprings for survival
Parents genes passed on to the next generation

More energy of the parents needed
Could cause the parents their health or life