Exam 56: Animal Behavior

Figure 56.29 -Answer the question using the accompanying figure. The worker bees represented by letters C and F, which receive different alleles from the queen, are related to each other by ____.

What is a proximate cause of the non-combative behavior of male African cichlids that do not hold territories?

Food preference in garter snakes is a learned behavior.

Young male white-crowned sparrows that were experimentally raised without ever hearing the song of their species ____.

A worker bee that is a day old is most likely to perform which function?

The courtship display of the wandering albatross is primarily a(n) ____display.

Figure 56.29 - Answer the question based on the accompanying figure. The worker bees represented by letters E and F, which received the same alleles from the queen, are related to each other by ____.

The red spot on the beak of a herring gull parent is a sign stimulus received by baby gulls.

A taxis is ____ movement, while a kinesis is ____ movement.

Younger honeybees have higher levels of juvenile hormone.

When extra juvenile hormone is experimentally administered to worker bees ( Apis mellifera ), they ____.

Winkler and Sheldon used the _____ to study _____ in swallows and martins.

Briefly explain some of the advantages and disadvantages of living in social groups.

Male Jarrow's spiny lizards ordinarily exhibit strong territoriality only during the ____ mating season, when elevated blood levels of ____ stimulate their aggressive behavior.

Classical conditioning associates ____, while operant conditioning links ____.

As a result of the hormonal and neuroanatomical differences between the male and female brains of zebra finches, ____.

-Answer the question using the accompanying figure. Which graph represents the age span of worker bees primarily involved in feeding the brood?

The Arctic tern makes an annual migration of up to ____.

When one male and one female form a long-term association, the mating system is referred to as ____.

Males and females often differ in their reproductive strategies due to the fact that males can increase the number of offspring they produce by ____ while females reproduce most successfully by ____.