Exam 56: Animal Behavior

The process of song learning by white-crowned sparrows is similar to the process of territory-holding by African cichlid fishes because brain cells in both animals can change ____ in response to well-defined social stimuli.

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

Bioluminescent signals that fireflies and certain fishes send to distant receivers in the dark are classified as ____ signals.

The brains of female zebra finches lack the hormonal influences that occur in the brains of males. As a result, what changes are seen in the female brains?

Polyandry is the mating system in which ____.

What is haplodiploidy, and how is it related to altruism in honeybees?

Ethology is the study of ____.

Kin selection is a form of natural selection in which ____.

Which trait is least consistent with evolution by sexual selection?

Pheromones are ____ signals.

In an experiment on wayfinding, indigo buntings were housed in outdoor cages with blotting paper walls and inkpads on the floors. Which line of evidence demonstrated to researchers that the indigo bunting uses the positions of stars to orient its migration?

A subordinate animal in a dominance hierarchy has limited access to food and mates. The most likely reason he remains in a social group that dominates him is because ____.

What are the proximate causes that underlie an animal's ability to detect and respond to stimuli?

In studying the dance of the honeybees, Karl von Frisch determined that the duration of the dance conveyed the ____ of the food and the angle of the dance conveyed the ____ of the food.

Some migratory birds that fly during the day position themselves using the location of the Sun in conjunction with an internal biological clock. This wayfinding mechanism is called ____.

When Tinbergen arranged pinecones around the nest of a female digger wasp, then moved them when the wasp was gone, the wasp ____.

In honeybees, queen bees are haploid organisms while male drones are diploid.

Instinctive behaviors are ____, while learned behaviors are ____.