Exam 36: Animal Behavior

A territory

Honeybees communicate the location of food resources by two types of dances,the round dance and the ____________ dance.

Sociobiology,the ethological study of social behavior,was originated by

The ethological study of social behavior in animals,originated by E.O.Wilson in 1975,is called ______.

Ethologists carry out all of the follow except

Behavior carried out in an orderly,predictable sequence is referred to as ___________ behavior.

The function of territoriality may be

Many people believe that kin selection,group selection,and mutual altruism are not controlled by genes.What evidence would you present to show that this is or is not so?

Tinbergen's male stickleback fish would attack models of other males if the models had

Much of an animal's behavior is triggered by a few key signals called ____________ or sign stimuli.

A simple kind of learning in which there is a reduction or elimination of a response in the absence of any reward or punishment is called ____________.

How are territories and ranges different? What is the purpose of distinguishing between the two when neither territory nor range can be exactly quantified?

The three ethologists who were awarded the Nobel Prize are von Frisch,Lorenz,and ____________.

If a male white-crowned sparrow is hatched and reared in isolation but allowed during a critical period of imprinting (10 to 50 days after hatching)to hear the song of a male from another species,the bird most likely will

Aggressive behavior between sexual rivals

The social ranking that serves to reduce social tensions within a social order is called a _________ _________.

If food is close to the hive,

Compare the properties of innate behavior with those of learned behavior.How does a researcher separate the two in nature?

An example of social organization is

Discuss the properties of imprinting.How could any kind of imprinting have evolved?