Animal Behavior Practice Problems
Which migratory animals are the most heavily impacted by wind energy production?
Migratory animals often prepare themselves before migrating. Why do some avian migrants adjust their internal organs before departure?
_____ is the evolutionary strategy that favors the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even though it may cost the organism's survival and reproduction.
In Hamilton's rule, what does the "Coefficient of relatedness" (r) mean?
Migration refers to the pattern of behavior among animals in which they travel from one location to another for several reasons. Salmon start their lives in rivers and migrate to the sea to feed and grow. Why do they migrate back to rivers after a few years?
Which of the following is an example of altruism?
Poison-dart frogs are known for their deadly toxins. How do they warn their predators to avoid being preyed on?
Ants use pheromones to direct the colony to food sources. When the food is rich, each ant will deposit pheromones on the trail as they move to and from their colony. When the food runs out, how will they communicate this with other ants?
How do most insects, like ants and bees, communicate with each other?
The male fiddler crab has an enlarged major claw. What is the primary function of this specialized claw?
Bolas spiders have developed several ways to forage effectively during the night. How do male Bolas spiders attract male moths?
According to optimal foraging model, natural selection favors foraging behavior that ___________ costs, and ___________ benefits.
Which of the following is not a learned animal behavior?
What is the metric for indirect fitness?
Which of the following statements about research focused on the ultimate causation of behavior is correct?
Which of the following factors is not involved in the proximate causation of behavior?
_____ assortative mating is the tendency to choose mates with similar characteristics, while the tendency to choose mates with dissimilar character characteristics is referred to as _____ assortative mating.
Natural selection favors altruistic acts when the resulting benefit to the recipient, corrected for relatedness, exceeds the cost to the altruist. This statement is in accordance with
Identify the false statement regarding the behavior of female spotted sandpipers:
Identify the incorrect statement regarding chimpanzees
There is an annual addition of new syllables to a canary’s song bank because:
All of the following are required for the evolution of a behavioral trait by natural selection except:
Which one of the following is not true regarding innate behaviors?