Glossary 3032

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Agonistic

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Aggressive behaviour within a species (Intraspecific)

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Arrhythmic

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Showing no regular period of activity

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Behaviour

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Response to a stimulus
May be innate (instinctive) or learned

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Biological clock

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Internal timing system that controls biological rhythms and continues in the absence of external stimuli

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Biological rhythm

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Regularly repeated behaviour

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Circadian

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Period of about 24 hours

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Circannual

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Period of about 360 days

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Circamonthly

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Period of about 29 days

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Circatidal

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Period of about 12 hours

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Commensalism

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Relationship where one species benefits from the relationship and the other is unaffected.

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Courtship

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Process that prepares males and females for mating

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Crepuscular

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Activity that occurs at dawn and dusk

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Diurnal

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Activity that occurs during the day with an inactive period at night

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Ecological niche

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The role of the organism in its habitat.
-how it makes use of available biotic and abiotic resources
-adaptations to avail itself of these resources

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Endogenous rhythm

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Rhythm that continues in the absence of external environmental stimuli and is controlled by an internal biological clock .

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Entrainment

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Process of resetting biological clock

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Exogenous rhythm

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Rhythm that is in response to an external stimulus

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Gause’s exclusion principle

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Principle that no two species with identical ecological niches can coexist for long in the same place

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Hierarchy

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Set of social relationships that is based on the dominance and submissiveness of the group members

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Home range

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Area over which animal or group of animals regularly travels in search of food or mates, which may overlap with that of neighboring animals and groups of the same species.

Question 21

Homing

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Ability of an animal to return to its home site

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Interspecific competition

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Competition for resources between species

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Intraspecific competition

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Competition for resources within a species

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Kinesis

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Non-directional responses to the intensity of a stimulus

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Migration

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Regular (usually annual) mass movement of animals from their breeding area to another area where they do not breed, and their return to their home site

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Mutualism

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Relationship where both species benefit (symbiosis)

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Navigation

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Methods whereby animals find their way (orientation) when homing and migrating

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Nocturnal

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Activity that occurs at night with inactive period during day

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Parasitism

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Process of deriving food from a host but usually without killing the host

Question 30

Phase shift

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Timing response that occurs when the onset of the period of rhythm is changed to an earlier or later time frame

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Predation

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Process or activity where one species obtains its energy intake by killing and eating other animal species

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Sensory receptor

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Receptor for a sense that detects an environmental stimulus

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Taxis (taxes)

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Movement of an animal towards or away from a stimulus that comes from one direction

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Territory

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Area that an animal marks and defends against other animals of the same species (intraspecifically)

Question 35

Zeitgeber (time giver)

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External stimulus that acts as a cue for a timing response