intro to animal behaviour Flashcards
1
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What is ‘ethology?’
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the study of animal behaviour from ecological and evolutionary perspectives
2
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Apply multiple evolutionary, physiological, and ecological concepts to define animal behaviour.
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3
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What is a ‘life history strategy?’
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4
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How is an ‘evolutionary stable state/strategy’ utilized to explain animal behaviour?
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5
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What is an ‘adaptive behaviour?’
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- behaviour which increases fitness in response to a change in environment
6
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Define a ‘deceitful behaviour.’ In evolutionary context, how is this a misnomer?
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- something humans define to be decitful
7
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What is/are ‘Proximate causes of behaviour?’
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- proximate questions address the mechanismtht produces a behaviour
- environmental stimuli that triggers a behaviour and the genetic and physiological mechanisms that make it possible
- THE HOW
8
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What is/are ‘Ultimate causes of behaviour?’
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- ultimate questions address the evolutionary significance of a behaviour
- why a behaviour increase the evolutionary fitness of the nimal demonstarting it helping it to survive and reproduce in its environment
- why does an animal show this behaviour
9
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what is evolutionary fitness
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- contribution to the next generation based on your contribution
10
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sexual cannibalism
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in some species, one sex (usually female) consumes the othe during sexual reproduction
- ex. praying maintis, australian redback spider, scorpion
