Birds
What is internal and oviparous?
Mammals are split into these 2 groups.
What are placental and nonplacental mammals?
A mammal immediately knows how to nurse after birth. This is an example of ________.
What is innate behavior?
This is a behavior that an animal is not born with.
What is learned behavior?
Contour and down are two kinds of ________.
What are feathers?
These are the four main characteristics that make up all mammals.
What are endothermic, four-chambered hearts, nourishing young with milk, and hair covering skin?
These are the three types of learned behavior.
What are Habituation, Imprinting, and Conditioning?
The definition of an endotherm.
What is a warm-blooded animal that has the ability to regulate its internal body temperature regardless of the external environment?
What is preen?
This layer of hair is usually the thicker layer.
What is the under hair?
An example of this learned behavior is humans learning to sleep next to a noisy train station.
What is habituation?
What is gestation?
This is the difference between birds of prey and diving birds.
What is hunting with their talons vs. hunting with their beaks?
This is why marsupials are non-placental animals.
What is they are not in-utero for a long enough period of time to develop a placenta, they crawl into the pouch and complete development in the pouch within days of fertilization?
These are the four types of social behaviors.
What are aggression, territorial defense, courtship, and dominance hierarchy?
This is the definition of circadian rhythm.
What is an internal clock that an animal uses to keep their activity and rest within a 24-hour period?
These are the 3 most essential characteristics of flight in birds.
What are wings, feathers, and skeletal structures (porous bones)?
These are 3 names of the orders of placental mammals.
What are (any combination of these): Artiodactyla, Carnivora, Cetacea, Chiroptera, Dermoptera, Edentata, Hyracoidea, Insectivora, Lagomorpha, Perissodactyla, Pholidota, Primates, Proboscidea, Rodentia, Sirenia, and Tubulidentata?
What are sounds, odors, visual cues, and touch? What are warnings, mating, and territorial protection?
This is the definition of a fixed action pattern.
What is an innate behavior, triggered by a stimulus, occurring as an unchangeable, uninterruptible sequence of actions?