49. Animal Behavior

What scientific skill is a researcher using when she listens to the sounds that whales make?

A cow with a hurt leg will usually react in which of the following ways?

Pheasants do not feed their chicks. Immediately after hatching, a pheasant chick starts pecking at seeds and insects on the ground. How might a behavioral ecologist explain the ultimate cause of this behavior?

What do proximate explanations of behavior focus on?

How would you expect the behavior of a male fruit fly lacking the fru gene to differ from that of a normal male?

The long, heavy tail of a spider monkey enables the monkey to easily vary its:

Honeybees have a remarkable way of transferring information about the location of a food source to other members of the hive. The worker bees conveying this information use __________ communication to relay this information.

Konrad Lorenz believed that imprinting has which of the following properties?

What kind of learning is thought to form the origin of culture?

Animal behavior is governed by complex interactions between __________.

Which of the following best illustrates optimal foraging?

Which of the following statements best defines an altruistic act?

Which of the following well-known sayings best summarizes the idea of reciprocal altruism?

Watching squirrels in the park, you start to wonder why they act so oddly. One squirrel bit the tail of another. Which of the following is a question about the proximate cause of this behavior?

An aquaculture facility hatched salmon eggs and released young fish into a river leading to the ocean. The fish fed and grew in the ocean, and in a few years they returned to the facility. Because the number of returning fish was low, a scientist suggested adding a chemical to the river that would __________.