Exam 26: Animal Behavior

Aggressive encounters between individuals of the same species

What is the function of the dominance hierarchy within a group of animals?

A cat grooming another cat is an example of_________ communication.

What is operant conditioning?

In male bighorn sheep, the dominant male is usually the one with the largest horns.

Only primates have the ability to communicate by sound.

An animal can imprint only on members of its own species.

Male bullfrogs produce loud calls during the mating season to attract females. The loudest males tend to mate with the most females. What can we reasonably conclude about this situation?

All members of a wolf pack help to raise the pups-sharing food, defending the pups, teaching them to hunt-even though this behavior decreases the mating potential of a given pack member. This behavior is called_________ .

Suckling is an innate behavior in mammals.

What are the advantages to being a social animal?

Behaviors result from an interaction between genes and environment.

Worker honeybees are

Some insects that have an unpleasant taste, such as monarch butterflies, have bright, high -contrast color patterns. Most predators, once they have tasted a monarch, will leave all other monarchs alone in the future. What type of learning has occurred in the predators?

What are the benefits of territoriality?

When city dwellers fail to respond to ordinary traffic sounds, it is an example of

What is the advantage of play?

A newly hatched duck adopts the first large, moving object it sees as its mother. This is an example of_________ .

The different calls of vervet monkeys indicate

In human infants, smiling is a(n)_________ behavior.