Exam 52: Animal Behavior

Whereas the field of animal behavior known as behaviorism focused on controlled laboratory studies of a small number of species, the field of animal behavior known as _______ concentrated on comparative studies of diverse animals in their natural environments.

Refer to the figure showing sonograms for three birds. The sonogram in part C (deafened bird) shows the song of a male that heard his species-specific song during the appropriate sensitive period, but was deafened before he began singing.What does the abnormal sonogram indicate?

When compared with untreated male Yarrow's lizards, males with testosterone implants in summer displayed all of the following except

Name two methods by which genes are manipulated to show that a single gene influences development and expression of a behavior.

A honey bee is performing a waggle dance straight down on the honeycomb, and the waggle runs have a very short duration.What is the bee communicating to her hivemates?

If you were interested in studying how animals defend food resources, you might select a study species

Which statement about sex steroids and sexual behavior in rats is false?

Which male white-crowned sparrow will sing his species-specific song?

Ivan Pavlov and B.F.Skinner were practitioners of the field of animal behavior called _______.

Which of the following does not influence the development of singing behavior in male birds?

It has been discovered that certain planktonic larvae of marine organisms select their settlement site using signals that indicate the suitability of the site for sustaining life.Which of the following is the most likely signal initiating this settling response?

Adult male mice are usually aggressive toward newborn mice.You suspect that the hormone prolactin being expressed in the adult males underlies this aggression and have identified a gene for prolactin receptors.The next logical step in your study would be to

In a diploid organism, the fitness benefit that is accrued by rearing one's own offspring is _______ that accrued by rearing a sister's offspring.

Which statement about sexual behavior of rats is false?

A(n) _______ is an area where males defend small territories on which they perform displays to attract females.

The _______ of a circadian rhythm is not exactly 24 hours.

Northern flickers are woodpeckers of the eastern United States.Males, but not females, have black feathers that resemble a moustache extending from the bill along each side of the head.Aggression between males is common, but male and female members of breeding pairs are not aggressive toward one another.However, when scientists painted a moustache on female members of breeding pairs, their mates attacked them.This suggests that

Choose the incorrectly paired term and definition.

During your field observations you notice that many of the social groups of your study species consist of multiple males that provide care to the offspring of one female.The mating system of your study species is likely

During imprinting, parents learn to distinguish their own young from other young by learning key stimuli during a window of time called the _______.