Exam 40: Animal Behavior

Suppose you find that houseflies from northern areas are more likely to engage in a food seeking behavior than those from the south.What is the best method to show that these geographic differences are genetic and not just environmental in nature?

Epigenetic marking

In Darwin's finches,how do males usually acquire a specific song?

Which statement about fixed action patterns is false?

What feature would you least expect to see in a eusocial system?

Biological determinism

Which animal has the highest sustained speed of all running animals?

Suppose that nearly all healthy individuals of a fish species perform a swimming pattern upon exposure to a chemical.This response is very similar across all individuals of the species,and is exceedingly difficult to prevent via learning.Most likely,this behavior is an example of

What part of the body does a bee waggle in a waggle dance?

The behavioral phenotype a migratory locust will express is determined primarily by the _______ conditions it experiences.

A region of the brain shows increased activity when a mouse is learning a maze.This is a type of _______ evidence about the role that brain region plays in behavior.

An increase in predator activity has led to selection for rapid,short-burst movement in lizards.These lizards are most likely going to evolve _______ ATP production.As a consequence,these lizards should fatigue _______ easily.

Heinrich used _______ to predict which flowers bumblebees would visit during different types of weather.

Behavioral _______ is the notion that individuals are hardwired by genetics,and that their behaviors are difficult or impossible to change.

Experimental evidence suggests that the ability to detect _______ allows pigeons to home even on overcast days.

An individual vampire bat shares a blood meal with another individual bat.This sharing helps the recipient survive but imposes a cost on the donor.Which term best describes this behavior?

Emlen's studies of buntings demonstrated that their ability to learn the identity of the North Star was

Which statement about pheromones is false?

A mammal that runs a maze based on remembered cues,and does not rely on environmental cues,is

Two individual bears occupy the same area of woods and open grassland.This area would be best described as a