Helpful behavior that lowers the helper’s reproductive success while increasing the reproductive success of the individual being helped.
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.
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.
Specialized form of acoustic communication used in bats and cetaceans that use high-frequency sounds to detect and localize prey.
Type of selection where male deer with the greatest success in combat are able to retain females for longer periods.
Type of communication where female Photuris fireflies mimicks the flash signals produced by Photinus females to lure male Photinus fireflies.
Behavioral strategy that cannot be invaded by a mutant individual.
What is an evolutionarily stable strategy?
Differences among males provide females with information about the genetic qualities of the different males that can be inherited by the offspring.
Mating system with no pair bonds, and where both sexes often seem to mate randomly.
Every organism inhabits a world that is the sum total of all the information being received and processed by that organism's nervous system.
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.