A mating system where each female mates with one male, and males mate with multiple females.
What is polygyny?
100
As climate warms, species that are sensitive to heat are experiencing _______.
What is range collapse?
100
Characteristics conducive to domestication.
What is flexible diet/even temperment/captive breeding?
100
A disease that is transferred between animals and humans?
What is a zoonosis/zoonotic disease?
100
Unlike reptiles, mammals require a consistent food source. Why?
What is high cost of endothermy?
200
Factors leading to monogamous mating.
What is low population density, reduced food availability, etc?
200
A dispersal avenue that is consistently available (e.g. a contiguous area of habitat or a bridge that is not season-dependent).
What is a corridor?
200
Unintended consequences of selective breeding?
What is lower genetic diversity than in wild/tendency for health issues?
200
During the recent Ebola outbreak, duikers and apes that were eaten by people had evidence of the virus, but were ruled out as primary vectors because _______.
What is high mortality due to the virus? (primary host can carry the disease without ill effects)
200
Strategies such as evaporative cooling, basking, adaptive hyperthermia, etc?
What is thermoregulation?
300
Competition where males compete for mates (e.g. lekking).
What is INTRASEXUAL competition?
300
Evidence of continental drift based on fossils.
What is presence of fossils on multiple continents indicating that they were previously connected?
300
Reason why mice are such a good model for study of human disease?
What are close analogs in genomes?
300
Since the 1950s, the number of rabies cases has gone from about 2000 to under 500 among American pets. Why?
What is vaccination?
300
What organ aids in detection of pheromones?
What is the Jacobson's/vomeronasal organ?
400
In some species, older siblings will help care for younger siblings.
What is alloparental care?
400
During the late Pliocene, large scale movements of wildlife took place between North and South America, leading to explosions in diversity.
What is the Great American Biotic Interchange?
400
It is suspected that domestication of dogs was not intended. Why?
What is prehistoric adoption of submissive wolf pups?
400
There has been an increase in Lyme disease cases recently, due to....
What is greater proximity to wildlife?
400
A distinct feature of an herbivore skull-a gap where canines would be.
What is a diastema?
500
In some mammals, family groups stick together. Non breeding adults (e.g. aunts and uncles) will help care for the young.
What is cooperative breeding?
500
Island syndrome results in....
What is morphological/behavioral changes from mainland?
500
In an attempt to bring back the extinct auroch, people tried to selectively breed cattle that shared their morphological, genetic and behavioral traits.
What is backbreeding?
500
A field that addresses habitat fragmentation and consequences for human health, and studies comparative ecosystem, human, and animal health.
What is conservation medicine?
500
Simplification of the jaw joint and addition to the ear apparatus led to what defining mammal feature?