Escape from predation

Question 1

Predator adaptations to catch prey

Answer 1

claws, fangs, poison, etc

Question 2

Prey adaptations to avoid capture

Answer 2

hiding, fleeing, congragating

Question 3

armadillo and roly poly

Answer 3

physical defense- armor

Question 4

silkworm moth caterpiller

Answer 4

spines

Question 5

Hair as physical defense

Answer 5

caterpillar has painful, stinging hair to protect from parastoids

Question 6

skunks

Answer 6

• chemical defense = methyl mercaptan

- pattern on fur is warning

Question 7

Aposematic coloration

Answer 7

warning colors

• poison dart frog
• monarch butterfly
• milkweed bugs/beetles
• hooded pitohui bird

Question 8

physical toughness in plants

Answer 8

• cellulose = hard to digest
• lignin in wood = resistant to enzymatic digestion
• silica/cellulose in grass= fucks up horses teeth

Question 9

pygmy seahorse

Answer 9

forms tubercles (calcified bumps) to mimic coral color

Question 10

cuttlefish

Answer 10

produce pigments through chromatophors

Question 11

inchworms and caterpillers

Answer 11

find plant that matches their look

Question 12

crabweed spiders and milkweed spiders

Answer 12

camoflauge in center of flowers to eat pollinators

Question 13

Batesian mimicry

Answer 13

unharmful animal mimics harmful animal

• fly mimics bee
• caterpiller mimics snake
• snakes are dangerous if red touches yellow

Question 14

Mullerian mimicry

Answer 14

harmful mimics harmful

• monarch and viceroy butterflies
• yellowjacket and cuckoo bee

Question 15

Escacpe in time

Answer 15

“predator satiation”

• mast fruiting in oaks, periodical cicadas, mayflies, century plants
• predator gets full

Question 16

Escape in space

Answer 16

prickly pear

• used to be everywhere
• moth wiped it out
• now it’s rare

Question 17

feigning death/injury

Answer 17

kildeer bird

Question 18

mobbing

Answer 18

• crows mob bald eagles

- mockingbirds mob crows

Question 19

Aggressive behavior

Answer 19

frilled lizard

-california ground squirrels

Question 20

flash patterns

Answer 20

deer