Kinship
Anti-Predator Strategies & Communication
Mating and Sexual Selection
Cooperation and Foraging
Aggression and Territoriality
Student Presentations
200
You are __% related to your grandfather
25%
200
This is the type of coloration this animal displays
Warning coloration
200
What is this animal? And, is it a male or female?
Fiddler crab male
200
This animal farms its own food supply (fungus) in underground chambers.
Leaf-Cutter Ants
200
In the 'war of attrition' model with dung fly mating, the female mates with the male that displays the _____
Longest
200
This animal shares blood with others who are hungry
vampire bat
300
You are __% related to your cousin
12.5% (1/8)
300
This caterpillar is trying to avoid ___ (detection, attack, harm when attacked)
Attack
300
This is the term for the mating system where one male mates with many females.
Polygyny
300
The three main factors in optimal foraging theory are the energy gained from a resource, search time, and this.
Handling time/energy
300
This term describes how animals are likely to avoid a fight with an animal they just saw win a fight.
Bystander effect
300
This animal changes color to avoid predators like birds and snakes
chameleon (dwarf chameleon)
400
Female bees are this percent related to the queen
50%
400
What animal vibrates to attract predators until the female mates with him?
Water striders
400
This is the term for why this species went extinct
Runaway selection
400
This term describes the type of cooperation where both animals get something immediate from the relationship
Byproduct Mutualism
400
This hormone is associated with higher aggression and dominance in crayfish/lobsters.
Serotonin
400
This animal has males that attach as parasites to the females
Anglerfish
500
This term describes the collective amount of "your" genes that are passed down to the next generation by you and anyone related to you.
Inclusive fitness
500
This term describes how honeybees communicate the location of food sources
Waggle dance
500
This term describes the idea that females select for disadvantageous traits so that only the "best" males can display them
Handicap Hypothesis
500
This term describes the type of cooperation that requires individual recognition and scorekeeping
Reciprocity
500
This term describes when offspring of animals (often birds) establish territories adjacent (next to) their parents territories
Territory budding
500
This animal has more efficient foraging and higher cold tolerance.
Mule Deer
600
Subordinates or young are most likely to be allowed to stay "home" if they have (low, med, high) relatedness to the dominant and (low, med, high) share of the mating.
High, Low
600
Guppies are more likely to display predator approach behavior in the presence of females. What term describes this change in behavior?
Audience effect
600
This term describes the model saying that females will only occupy a territory that has one male and many females if there is a high reward in terms of resources
Polygyny threshold model
600
According to this theory, how long an organism forages in a patch depends on how far away other patches are.
Marginal Value Theorem
600
This term describes when animals have multiple "bouts" of interactions/fights, increasing in intensity, to determine dominance
Sequential Assessment
600
This animal picks outsiders to join their group, wants ones strong enough to help with defense but not so strong they will take over the group.
Lions
700
This is the term for the genetic inheritance system that social insects have that ensures their social structure stays intact
Haplodiploidy
700
This term describes what these crows are doing to the owl.
Mobbing
700
What kind of bird makes this nest?
Bowerbird
700
According to this theory, cooperation may be favored in competition between groups (not within a group)
Group selection (aka multilevel selection)
700
This hormone is associated with reduced aggression (more submissive behavior) in lobsters and crayfish
Cortisol
700
On what island would I find this little monster?
Madagascar
800
This species has groups of related females.
Belding's Ground Squirrel
800
This species is what ground squirrels throw rocks at.
Rattlesnakes
800
What species is this (males sing to attract females)?
Lyrebird
800
These cliff swallows are talking about their food. What do they eat?
Swarms of insects
800
What species is this?
Ruff
800
This country is where two of our students are right now, at the UN Climate Meetings
United Arab Emirates (UAE)