kin selection
When animals appear to aid each other at the cost of themselves
what is altruism?
These household pets exhibit some of the best examples of visual communication.
What are dogs?
This can be an indicator for females on who is a good mate or not, correlates with parasite load and condition.
What is coloration?
Leaf cutter ants lay this down to lead workers to the harvest site; a form of chemical communication.
What is a trail pheromone.
This includes indirect and direct fitness
What is inclusive fitness?
When 2 cats rub their heads together in a form of communication.
What is bunting?
Female choice when a gift is offered rather food or a nuptial gift.
Material Resources
An example of this would be monkeys grooming each other to strengthen social bonds.
What is tactile communication?
The total genetic relatedness between an individual and their first cousin.
What is 1/8?
A tactile communication bees perform to let worker bees know which direction to fly relative to the sun.
Males often engage in this behavior to showcase how resourceful they could be for future young.
What is courtship feeding?
A type of communication that does not benefit the sender but does benefit the receiver.
What is eavedropping?
When non-breeding animals help another individual breed or raise their young.
What is cooperative breeding?
A visual communicator mostly present in birds that can express an idea whenever needed and then be removed again.
What is a coverable badge?
Female bullfrogs look for males that are defending these types of areas that can aid in faster development.
What are warm areas?
When 2 or more types of communication are used to exhibit one uniform idea.
What is multimodal signaling?
This 'royal' bird species has 3 different strategies if it encounters trouble in finding a mate.
The form of communication animals use; that is they only are able to express ideas that may increase fitness and can not transfer everything they know.
What is conceptualist communication?
Fitch, W. Tecumseh. "Animal cognition and the evolution of human language: why we cannot focus solely on communication." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375.1789 (2020).
In katydids, females that kept this had larger and more eggs compared to those that did not.
What is the spermatophore?
Due to predation, this form of cricket has evolved as a way to make noises to attract mates but not be caught by the predatory birds.
What is a purring cricket?