Exam 26: Animal Behavior

What advantage does sound communication have over visual communication?

A child learns which foods taste good or bad through

In a wolf pack, the alpha is the_________ animal.

What are the disadvantages to being a social animal?

Living in a social group increases the risk of contracting an infectious disease.

Pheromones affect only the animal that produces them.

To communicate across hundreds of miles, whales use

The queen in a naked mole rat colony is the only female allowed to breed.

Pheromones are species specific.

Complex societies involving a caste system, where individuals are born into a specific role, can be found among which of the following?

Female peafowl (peahens) prefer to breed with males (peacocks) that have the longest tails. However, the longer the peacockʹs tail, the less well he can fly and the more likely he is to be eaten by predators. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

The protist Stentor contracts when it is touched for the first time but gradually stops retracting if the touching is continued. This behavior is called

When you first move to a city, you can hardly sleep because of the nighttime traffic noise. Within a week, you don?t notice it at all. This is an example of_________ .

A chemical produced by one animal that is usually only detectable by another animal of the same species is called a

Play inhibits normal behavioral development.

Birds use vocal displays to defend their territories.