Levels of Analysis
This level of analysis explains why behavior increases on individuals fitness (the ability to survive and reproduce).
What is adaptive value?
The behavior honey bees use to tell other individuals where food is located.
What is the waggle dance?
The timeframe of manatee migration.
What is seasonally?
Arctic Fox use this to avoid predators and blend in with their enviroments.
What is passive camouflage?
Arctic fox change their this seasonal to blend in with their environment.
What is fur?
Neural mechanisms, hormonal levels and physiological systems are all examples of this level of analysis.
What is causation?
Bees know how to waggle do to this.
What is learning?
These environmental factors are what drives manatee migration.
What is cooler water temperatures, less rainfall, and lower water levels?
The environmental cues that lead to the molting of one coat color in Arctic Fox.
What is seasonal changes (temperatures)?
These insects preform a "figure eight" dance to tell other members where to find food using the direction of the sun!
What are honey bees?
This level of analysis examines how a behavior develops over an individual’s lifetime, including learning or instincts.
What is ontogeny?
Bees use this as a relative point to relay their directions to food.
What is the sun?
Migration of manatees allows for an increase in their ability to survive and reproduce, an idea known as this.
What is fitness?
Camouflage is a anti-predator behavior known as this.
What is solitary defense?
This marine animal eats up to 5%-15% of their body weight a day!
What is a manatee?
This level of analysis considers how a behavior evolved over generations.
What is evolutionary history?
The costs and benefits of a scouting bee traveling longer distances are.
Costs: An increase in the energy used to search for food.
Benefits:
Higher quality flower patches are found to feed more bees, thus an increase in survival and reproduction.
Some manatees migrate while others stay in a particular area, a strategy known as this.
What is partial migration?
This level of analysis explains how fur color is linked to the MC1R gene.
What is causation?
Manatees are sometimes referred to as this because of their gentle personalities and slow movements.
What are sea cows?
The biologists who published the levels of analysis.
Who is Nikolaas Timbergen?
The neural mechanisms needed to preform the waggle dance has been found across he genus Apis, this is an example of which levels of analysis.
What is evolutionary history and causation?
What are the costs and benefits of manatee migration?
Costs: Energy spent migrating to warmer water temperatures
Benefits:
- Warmer climates have an increase in nutrients (food)
- Higher water levels allow for deeper waters to forage in
This level of analysis explains how natural selection shaped Artic fox anti-predator behaviors over generations.
What is evolutionary history?
The colors Arctic fox fur changes to when the seasons change are these.
What are white in winter and brown/gray in summer?