General
A bear goes searching to find and eat food. What is this behavior called?
What is foraging?
A physical or chemical changing in the surrounding of an animal
What is a stimulus?
the act of learning by observing others
What is social learning?
A mother bird brings food to her chicks and takes care of them. What type of animal behavior is this.
What is parental care?
The meerkat in the video we watched demonstrated which type of behavior?
What is Altruism?
A Carolina wren using muscles to produce a song, a coyote releasing a scent to mark territory and a fiddler crab waving its claw are all specific examples of what general concept?
What is behavior?
Monarch butterflies travel thousands of miles from North America to central Mexico to warmer conditions each year. This annual journey an example of what?
What is migration?
Trial and error learning in which an individual learns to associate a behavior with a reward or punishment
What is classical conditioning?
Distinct physical differences in males and females of the same species based on whether it is a monogamous or polygynous species
What is sexual dimorphism?
The study of behavioral and cultural traits favored by natural selection
What is sociobiology?
A developmentally fixed behavior in a population
What is innate behavior?
Daily cycle of rest and activity synchronized with light and dark cycles
What is a circadian clock?
A representation in an animals nervous system of the spatial relationships between objects and its surroundings
What is a cognitive map?
When a female copies another females choice of mating behavior, deviating from their typical behavior.
What is mating choice copying?
When two unrelated individuals help each other
What is reciprocal altruism?
Nobel peace prize winner in 1973 who founded the basis of animal behavior research
Who is Nikolaas Tinbergen?
Transmission and reception of signals between animals
What is communication?
A gull mother bonds with its offspring for two days and teaches it skills necessary to survive. This bonding period is called:
What is a sensitive period?
A ritualized contest between males that allow competitors to gain access to a resource
What is agonistic behavior?
What is a possible reason for why humans and primates play?
What is to prepare for uncontrolled circumstances and practice survival skills?
Male stickleback fish will attack plastic fish painted red before they will attack other males with a grey painted belly. The color red is a trigger for the male stickleback fish. What is this trigger called?
What is a sign stimulus?
Wolves hold their tails in different positions to indicate dominance or submission in the pack. This is can be classified as what type of communication?
What is visual communication?
In Konrad Lorenz's experiment, greylag geese followed him around instead of their actual mother after bonding with him on their first encounter with a moving individual. This experiment represented what type of behavior?
What is imprinting?
What are the two subcategories for a polygynous species?
What are polygany and polyandry?
It was determined by Hamiltons law that natural selection favors the act of a mother black bear putting herself in danger to save her cub from a predator. Natural selection favoring reproductive success of the baby cub is called what?
What is Kin Selection?