Courtship Behaviors
What is Courtship Behavior?
Actions animals use to attract mates.
What is Parental Care?
Behaviors that help offspring survive (feeding, guarding, building nests).
What are R-strategists?
Species that produce many offspring with little or no parental care (insects, fish).
Give two examples of Animal Courtship Behaviors.
Songs and dances (birds)
Bright feathers (birds)
Scents/pheromones (most mammals)
Display behaviors (peacocks, deer)
(Any of these work)
What are some examples of Courtship Behavior?
Songs and dances (birds)
Bright feathers (birds)
Scents/pheromones (most mammals)
Display behaviors (peacocks, deer)
What are some examples of parental care?
Nest building
Feeding young
Teaching hunting skills
Guarding eggs or babies
What are K-strategists?
Species that produce few offspring with a lot of parental care (humans, elephants).
What is the difference between r-strategists and k-strategists?
R-strategists have many children but give them little parental care, k-strategists have little children but give them a lot of parental care.
What are pheromones?
Scents animals release to attract mates or communicate.