House Hunters
Let's find these two lovebirds their dream home! They're using this hypothesis to find something with enough resources to support their kids, but not too many other individuals that they're competing.
What is ideal free distribution?
The ocean sunfish is able to produce over 300 million eggs per breeding season, making it the world leader in this life history trait.
What is fecundity?
The Gray Jay, which is the unofficial national bird of this country, engages in caching behavior of multiple kinds of seeds (Martin & Sherry 2021). This is an example of phoresy, or the use of another organism to disperse.
What is Canada?
Many multiplayer roleplaying games (RPGs) such as Stardew Valley rely on this cooperative behavior between the players to complete the game.
What is reciprocal altruism?
If you want to get the girl, follow this hypothesis by giving her a gift or a nice dinner like a hornbill bringing his mate berries.
What is Direct Benefits?
Let's find these elephant sisters a home! Their family follows this pattern, so they'd like to stay close to home where their mom and aunts are to help out with the family.
What is natal philopatry?
Mayflies have the shortest lifespan of any animal, living for only 24 hours. During this time, they mate, lay up to 10,000 eggs, and then die, making them a great example of this life history strategy.
What is r-selection?
The Imperial Amazon likely inhabited this island nation by jump dispersal, in which a species inhabits a region by passing through a filter.
What is Cuba?
In online "deathmatch" games such as Fortnite and the original Doom, each player gains points equivalent to the loss of points of another player they eliminate. This kind of game also goes by this mathematical term.
What is zero-sum?
If you want to get the girl, follow this hypothesis and show her you'd be a dependable long-term partner and parent, like a Masked Weaver building a nest for his mate.
What is Indirect Benefits?
Let's find this young lion a new bachelor pad! He follows this ecological pattern to make sure he can meet lots of ladies with no risk of inbreeding at his new place.
What is natal dispersal?
Shaw's jird, a rodent native to the Sahara Desert holds the record for highest rate of copulation. It has been observed mating 224 times in 2 hours: that's almost twice a minute! A shining example of this reproductive strategy.
What is iteroparity?
The cold temperature of the Baltic Sea serves as a filter that cold-intolerant fishes cannot pass through. One of the species that can pass through it is the Baltic Herring, the national fish of this country.
What is Estonia?
In games that feature skill trees like Far Cry and Skyrim, players can gain buffs in multiple different skills depending on the situations they find themselves in, an example of this strategy.
What is a mixed strategy?
If you want to get the girl, follow this hypothesis by wasting energy to prove that you have energy to waste, like a Spatuletail Hummingbird showing off its long, heavy tail.
What is the Handicap Hypothesis?
Let's find these turtles a nice island villa! They have a general idea of where they'd like to settle, but need some help finding the perfect spot due to fluctuations in this field surrounding Earth.
What is the magnetosphere?
Turritopsis dohrnii is also known as the "immortal jellyfish," and it's able to avoid the deterioration that comes with aging by reverting to its polyp stage when under stress. This ability makes it the world's longest-lived animal, and allows it to avoid this pattern in genetics.
What is antagonistic pleiotropy?
Horse ancestors such as Eohippus originated in North America, but migrated so slowly to Asia and Europe that they speciated along the way in a process called secular migration (Froeliech 2002), until they became the national animal of this country.
What is Azerbaijan?
Strategy games such as Risk, Diplomacy and even Monopoly often allow for collaboration or negotiation between players to avoid this costly outcome.
What is direct confrontation?
If you want to get the girl, use this hypothesis by making yourself eye-catching, like a male splitfin fish sporting a brightly-colored stripe that resembles the female's prey.
What is Sensory Bias?
Let's find this robin a sweet new summer home! She's looking for a fresh new place to call home now that longer days are causing migratory restlessness, also known by this German word.
What is Zugunruhe?
Because of the high amounts of energy needed to power their flight, hummingbirds have the highest metabolism of any animal. For this reason, they have very short lifespans, as explained by this theory.
What is the Rate of Living Theory?
The White Stork is the national bird of this nation, although it has been experiencing range expansion via diffusion (slow expansion on the level of populations) in Slovenia (Denac 2010).
What is Lithuania?
Assassin's Creed: Unity is set during the French Revolution, where the masses rose up against this class that they viewed as backing down in the face of high risk but acting aggressively in the face of low risk.
What are the bourgeois?
If you want to get the girl, follow this hypothesis by paying attention to her signals about what she wants, like a dung beetle that releases pheromones when she's ready for mating.
What is Chaseaway Selection?