Nature v. Nurture | Animal Communication: Part 1 | Animal Communication: Part 2 | Behavior Affect Fitness: Part 1 | Behavior Affects Fitness: Part 2 |
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It's the way an organism reacts to a stimulus or a situation and genes and the environment of an animal effect...
What is behavior?
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A signal being sent that influences the receiver's behavior...
What is communication?
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Using sounds in order to communicate with animals in the same species...
What is auditory communication?
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Protecting habitat especially during the reproduction period...
What is territoriality?
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The belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others...
What is altruism?
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An instinctive behavioral sequence
What is a fixed action pattern?
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The four types of communication between animals...
What are chemical, auditory, visual, and tactile?
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Signals that are portrayed in ways that can be seen...
What is visual communication?
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Food...
What is the energy source for animals?
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Animals can be nurturing to members of their gene pool (specifically altruism)...
What is shown through kin selection?
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When chicks, ducklings, and goslings are able to be imprinted during the......
What is the sensitive period?
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The chemical signals passed between members of the same species (chemical communication).....
What are pheromones?
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When one animal touches another...
What is tactile communication?
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Males fight each other for females
Females stay in groups and share good food resources...
What are the reproduction strategies of primates?
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An individual's reproductive success...
What is inclusive fitness?
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Using two types of stimuli to help an animal form an association...
What is classical conditioning?
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Spraying urine at the boundaries of their territory...
What is how cats spread their pheromones?
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Visual and tactile communication work together due to touch and sight help identify each other...
What is the similarity between visual and tactile communication?
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A form of natural selection that favors features that increase an animal's chance of mating...
What is sexual selection?
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Army ants...
What insect uses kin selection?
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Forming a behavior by using rewards or punishments...
What is operant conditioning?
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An organ present in the nose of mice and humans that detects odors and pheromones...
What is the vomeronasal organ (VNO)?
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Honeybee...
Which insect does a "wiggle dance" in order to communicate the distance/direction of food?
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Increases chance for diseases and limited resources for food and places to sleep...
What are the disadvantages of living in groups?
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When an organism reduces its fitness in order to increase another...
Vampire bats...
What is reciprocal altruism and which animal uses it?
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