Week 6

Question 1

Deterrents

Answer 1

growths like horns, spikes deter predators from attacking for fear of injury
Or armour to make yourself difficult to eat and not worth the trouble
Or be very large

Question 2

Crypsis

Answer 2

the ability to avoid detection using behaviour, camouflage or odor masking chemicals
hard to tell from fossils
but small dinosaurs probably did it more

Question 3

Finite element analysis

Answer 3

technique to see if adaptations can do what they are hypotheses to do
simulates stress in an object

Question 4

Side of head eye placements

Answer 4

send in herbivores that are prey they want to be able to see a lot

Question 5

front of head eye placement

Answer 5

more seen in predators as this helps them identify and attack with their stereoscopic vision
-common in animals that can climb or fly

Question 6

Ritualized agonistic combat

Answer 6

like pachycephalosaurs with their domed heads or dinosaurs with horns to fight without serious injury

Question 7

monospecific bonebeds

Answer 7

large accumulation of fossil bones from the same species
-since the density is high it is most likely non random and needs an explanation like a group dying in a landslide

Question 8

Non lethal face biting

Answer 8

agonistic behaviour done in crocodiles and tyrannosaurs