Exam 26: Animal Behavior

Animals use learning when they figure out how to solve a problem without prior experience with that problem.

The different calls of vervet monkeys indicate

A female dog in estrus attracts males with pheromones.

Foraging honeybees communicate the location of a source of food by

The fur standing up along a dog's back when it confronts a strange dog is an example of visual communication.

How does operant conditioning differ from insight learning?

Territoriality increases aggression.

When threatened, a cobra will rear up and spread its hood, which makes its head look larger and displays the eye spots. What kind of behavior is this?

What are the benefits of territoriality?

Pheromones affect only the animal that produces them.

Aggressive encounters between individuals of the same species

Play inhibits normal behavioral development.

A toad that eats a bee and is stung tends to avoid eating bees afterward. This is an example of _ learning.

Honeybees will sting a bear that is robbing their hive even though the bees will die after they sting the bear. This is an example of

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

Human babies are born with a sucking reflex. This is an example of a(n) behavior.

The insects in the photograph are demonstrating _ communication.

Only primates play.

Someone who lives next to a bell tower doesn't even notice the chiming of the bells after a while. This is an example of .

Social bonds between members of a group can be developed by communication.