Stay together for the kids
In ________ -selected species, individuals have lots of offspring, little parental investiment, short time to maturity, and short life spans.
What are r-selected species?
These type of animals (mostly insects) are known for having populations where most individuals do not breed, but instead help a few individuals raise their offspring, and also have different roles or castes for different individuals (i.e. worker bees and drone bees in honey bee species).
What are Eusocial species?
Both of these things affect an animal's behavior.
What are genes and environment?
These 3 categories of memory have been found in many species of chordates.
In this form of post-copulatory selection, females have a say in which male fertilizes their eggs via ___________________?
What is sperm selection?
Cuckoos are known for doing this behavior, in which they lay their eggs in the nest of another species, in the hopes that the nest owners will raise the cuckoo chicks as their own.
What is brood parasitism/Obligate parasitism?
A type of social interaction that occurs which results in a benefit to the recipient at a cost to the actor.
What is altruism?
Ravens leading wolves to food is an example of this.
What is mutualism/cooperation?
This occurs when information is passed down through non-genetic means via social learning.
What is cultural evolution?
This type of mating system occurs when 1 male mates and forms pair bonds with many females in a breeding season, and females form pair-bonds with only 1 male.
What is polygyny?
You gain this type of evolutionary benefit when you help a relative raise their offspring.
What is indirect fitness?
Non-queen Female honey bees sisters are more closely related to each other than they are to their mothers due to this type of ploidy.
What is haplodiploidy?
Who are the three "Fathers" of ethology that won the Nobel Prize for their contributions to the field of animal behavior in 1973?
Who are Niko Tinbergen, Karl von Frisch, and Konrad Lorenz?
What is cognition?
Males will sometimes insert THESE into a female's genital openings after mating with her to prevent her from mating with other males in the future.
What are mate plugs?
Why do American coot parents lay more eggs than they can provide for, and sometimes engage in brood reduction, where they peck at the heads of their weakest offspring, which often results in their death?
What is done as an insurance policy?
What is the bee waggle dance?
Acoustic signals, visual signals, chemical signals are all examples of different communication ____________.
What are modalities?
Non-human primates are unable to produce this _________ because the shape and structure of their vocal tracts is broader than that of humans.
What is speech/language?
In some species of birds native to the tropics, males will defend this type of site, used strictly for courtship displays performed in front of prospective female mates.
What are leks?
This hypothesis suggests that in haplodiploid species, worker females will prioritize raising female offspring over male offspring, since they have a higher degree of relatedness to females than to males.
Niko Tinbergen found evidence of this behavioral phenomenon when he observed that herring gull chicks will follow the first object they see that has a triangular beak-like shape with a red tip at the end which resembling of adult herring gull females.
What is imprinting?
This gene is highly conserved in many different types of animals, and plays a large role in an animal's development of "language" and other forms of vocal communication.
What is FOXP2?
What is external fertilization?