Exam 51: Animal Behaviour

Use the following information to answer the next few questions. Imagine that your house has caught fire.It is only yourself and your full-sibling brother in the house since your parents are gone on vacation.After escaping the house,you cannot find your brother and decide he must still be inside.There is a 25% chance that you will not survive the fire,and you each will produce two offspring each should you survive. -This scenario best exemplifies

Among songbirds,a "crystallized" song is one that

In Belding's ground squirrels,it is mostly the females that behave altruistically by sounding alarm calls.What is the likely reason for this distinction?

Scientists have tried raising endangered whooping cranes in captivity by using sandhill cranes as foster parents.This strategy is no longer used because

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

A type of learning that can occur only during a brief period of early life and results in a behaviour that is difficult to modify through later experiences is called

During a field trip,an instructor touched a moth resting on a tree trunk.The moth raised its forewings to reveal large eyespots on its hind wings.The instructor asked why the moth lifted its wings.One student answered that sensory receptors had fired and triggered a neuronal reflex culminating in the contraction of certain muscles.A second student responded that the behaviour might frighten predators.Which statement best describes these explanations?

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

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 behaviour?

Feeding behaviour with a high energy intake-to-expenditure ratio is called

What type of signal is brief and can work among obstructions at night?

What type of signal is fast and requires daylight with no obstructions?

Imagine that you are designing an experiment aimed at determining whether the initiation of migratory behaviour is largely under genetic control.Of the following options,the best way to proceed is to

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 behavioural pattern is repeated several times during the mating season.Choose the most specific behaviour described by this example.

Which of the following statements supports the idea that behaviors are important in survival and therefore affect natural selection?

Use the following information to answer the next few questions. Two populations of the highly ornamented white-crested sparrow species are spatially separated by a mountain range.Males from the two populations exhibit differing elaborate courtship displays.When a female appears,the males from the eastern population approach the female while bobbing their heads and spreading their wings,while the western population approaches a female by hopping and flapping their wings.Individuals from each population reared in isolation exhibited the same courtship displays as those in the wild. -When presented with a model of a female,a male from the eastern population will perform the courtship display to completion,regardless of a eliciting a response from the "female." This is an example of

Use the following information to answer the next few questions. Two populations of the highly ornamented white-crested sparrow species are spatially separated by a mountain range.Males from the two populations exhibit differing elaborate courtship displays.When a female appears,the males from the eastern population approach the female while bobbing their heads and spreading their wings,while the western population approaches a female by hopping and flapping their wings.Individuals from each population reared in isolation exhibited the same courtship displays as those in the wild. -Which of the following is true of innate behaviours?

Animal communication involves what type of sensory information?

White-crowned sparrows can only learn the "crystallized" song for their species by

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