Bug's Life
Helping Hand (or Paws)
Peacocking
Relationship Status: It's Complicated
"I hear you calling"
100
Bark beetles produce it to mass-attack their host tree.
What is a pheromone?
100

Helpful behavior that lowers the helper’s reproductive success while increasing the reproductive success of the individual being helped. 

What is altruism?
100
The cheapest of the two gametes necessary for sexual reproduction. 
What is sperm?
100
Mating system that advantages females due to paternity confusion and decreased infanticide, all the while having multiple males care for their brood.
What is polygynandry?
100

Communication type where male tungara frogs produce advertisement calls to attract females, but fringe-lipped bats also detect the calls, and use that information to locate and capture frogs.


What is eavesdropping? 
200
When under attack, spruce trees produce this allelochemical to attract certain wasps.
What is a synomone? 
200

The process that occurs when hereditarily distinctive individuals differ in the number of non-descendant relatives (not their own offspring) they help survive to reproduce.


What is kin (or indirect) selection?
200
Mating system leading to no or little sexual dimorphism, and relatively equal variance in reproductive success and parental care between the sexes. 
What is (social) monogamy?
200
Concept which explains constant relative fitness with increased mating frequency in females. 
What is Bateman's principle?
200

Specialized form of acoustic communication used in bats and cetaceans that use high-frequency sounds to detect and localize prey.


What is echolocation?
300
An arachnid that uses a sticky 'capture blob' to lure nearby moths. 
What is a Bola Spider?
300
An interaction where an individual reduces its reproductive success in order to harm another individual. 
What is spite?
300

Type of selection where male deer with the greatest success in combat are able to retain females for longer periods.

What is pre-copulatory intrasexual selection?
300
Concept that results in decreased male parental care if unable to successfully guard female mate. 
What is perceived paternity?
300

Type of communication where female Photuris fireflies mimicks the flash signals produced by Photinus females to lure male Photinus fireflies.

What is manipulation?
400
Behavior consisting of menotaxis and positive anemotaxis and chemotaxis in moths.
What is casting?
400

Behavioral strategy that cannot be invaded by a mutant individual.

What is an evolutionarily stable strategy?

400

Differences among males provide females with information about the genetic qualities of the different males that can be inherited by the offspring.

What is the Good Gene Hypothesis?
400

Mating system with no pair bonds, and where both sexes often seem to mate randomly.


What is promiscuity?
400

Every organism inhabits a world that is the sum total of all the information being received and processed by that organism's nervous system.

What is umwelt?
500
Polka-dot wasp moth emitting call of unpalatable dogbane tiger moth when detected by bats. 
What is vocal Batesian mimicry?
500
Based on game theory, when two social animals interact where they each have one chance in two of being the one that happens to hide behind the other when a predator attacks. 
What is the prisoner's dilemma? 
500

Evolutionary arms race, where the evolution of a trait that imposes harm on one sex will result in evolution of a counter-trait to mitigate the harm on the affected sex, with subsequent escalation in both.


What is sexual conflict?
500
Only truly monogamous animal known to date. 
What is diplozoon paradoxum?
500
Common gene found in bats and whales which allows for high frequency recognition, and consequently echolocation. 
What is the Prestin gene?
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