Behaviour Ecology (Week 4)

Question 1

What term refers to an animals behaviour when searching for food?

Answer 1

Optimal foraging.

Question 2

When do you typically see optical foraging?

Answer 2

During courtship, deception, aggression, cooperation

Question 3

What are the two competitive social behaviours?

Answer 3

Agnostic behaviour (physical contest) and fighting

Question 4

Apart from agnostic behaviour and fighting, which are other competitive social behaviours seen in animals?

Answer 4

Threat displays (When a dog snarls, showing teeth) and dominance hierarchies (Who is the alpha male) and territorial (stabilises population densities and stops intruders)

Question 5

What’s an example of territories used by animals?

Answer 5

A lions territory can be hundreds of KM and a sea lion will secure a space on the beach for a sea lion babe

Question 6

In courtship, are the males or females the one who chose and why?

Answer 6

The females pick as they find someone to invest in their off-spring with them

Question 7

In birds, are both parents there to raise their off-spring?

Answer 7

Nope, the male goes out for milk

Question 8

What two things to female species look for in male species?

Answer 8

Direct benefits to the female (such as a male bringing a fish to the female during a courtship/ prior to a little bit of da sexy time)

Genetics which will benefit the off-spring, all about looking enhanced and juiced up but you’re actually mad natty

Question 9

Explain what lekking is?

Answer 9

A male gives a display and the female will see who is the most attractive, go over for a little sexy time and be gone.

Question 10

What term describes animals which are selfish and d what only suits them?

Answer 10

Altruism

Question 11

What is inclusive fitness?

Answer 11

For fitness and genes, your off-spring and your relatives off-spring, you all help each other with resources, like a family of humans would

Question 12

What is important to consider in the aid for inclusive fitness (to who gets the aid)?

Answer 12

The relatedness/ genes which they share, like a human family, siblings you are more likely to share with than you cousin who is less related to you than your sibling

Question 13

What is the term which describes species which separate far from their group?

Answer 13

Kin selection (an example would be human family moving abroad)