Exam 51: Animal Behavior

-The behavior of most animals is influenced by the periods of daylight and darkness in the environment. Fiddler crabs' courtship behaviors are instead synchronized by the 29 1/2-day cycle of the moon. What is the adaptive significance of using lunar cues?

Listed below are several examples of types of animal behavior. Match the letter of the correct term (A-E) to each example in the following questions. A. operant conditioning B. agonistic behavior C innate behavior D. imprinting E. altruistic behavior -Through trial and error, a rat learns to run a maze without mistakes to receive a food reward.

Which of the following might affect the foraging behavior of an animal in the context of optimal foraging?

Some dogs love attention, and Frodo the beagle learns that if he barks, he gets attention. Which of the following might you use to describe this behavior?

Parental protective behavior in turkeys is triggered by the cheeping sound of young chicks. What term best applies to this behavior?

Although many chimpanzees live in environments containing oil palm nuts, members of only a few populations use stones to crack open the nuts. The likely explanation is that

The mating system in which females are more ornamented than males is

You discover a rare new bird species, but you are unable to observe its mating behavior. You see that the male is large and ornamental compared with the female. On this basis, you can probably conclude that the species is

Which of the following statements about evolution of behavior is correct?

Which of the following shows the adaptive significance of cognitive mapping to animals that employ this type of learning?

Fred and Joe, two unrelated, mature male gorillas, encounter one another. Fred is courting a female. Fred grunts as Joe comes near. As Joe continues to advance, Fred begins drumming (pounding his chest)and bares his teeth. Joe then rolls on the ground on his back, gets up, and quickly leaves. This behavioral pattern is repeated several times during the mating season. Choose the most specific behavior described by this example.

A female cat in heat urinates more often and in many places. Male cats congregate near the urine deposits and fight with each other. Which of the following would be an ultimate cause of the male cats' response to the female's urinating behavior?

The presence of altruistic behavior is most likely due to kin selection, a theory maintaining that

Which of the following statements is true about certainty of paternity?

Which of the following is true of innate behaviors?

Every morning at the same time, John went into the den to feed his new tropical fish. After a few weeks, he noticed that the fish swam to the top of the tank when he entered the room. This is an example of

Listed below are several examples of types of animal behavior. Match the letter of the correct term (A-E) to each example in the following questions. A. operant conditioning B. agonistic behavior C innate behavior D. imprinting E. altruistic behavior -A mother goat can recognize its own kid by smell.

In the evolution of whelk-eating behavior in crows, which of the following was optimized through natural selection?

Karl von Frisch demonstrated that European honeybees communicate the location of a distant food source by

Circannual rhythms in birds are influenced by