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Animal Behaviour

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Decks in this class (21)

Intro into Evolutionary Behvaiour
What is a proximate cause 1,
What is an ultimate cause 2,
Niko tinbergen 3
12  cards
Counter Intuitive Behaviour
Why do humans eat so many sweets ...,
Group selection individual select...,
The logic of group selection 3
15  cards
Evolution of Feeding Behaviour
Search image 1,
Testing the search image hypothes...,
Finding food by smell in skunks 3
21  cards
Optimal Foraging
Choosing what to eat how much 1,
Optimality logic selection will f...,
Selecting what to eat northwester...
12  cards
Avoiding Predation
Antipredator behaviour example of...,
What is an adaptation 2,
Why not all current traits are ad...
18  cards
Sexual Selection
Darwin natural selection 1,
Darwin s problem 2,
Darwin sexual selection 3
22  cards
The Evolution of Sex, Sperm Competition, Cryptic Female Choice, and Alternative Mating Strategies
Evolutionary origin of two sexes 1,
Sperm competition 2,
Outcompeting rivals 3
18  cards
Adélie Penguins
Sperm competition 1,
Male mallards mate guard to preve...,
American kestrel 3
23  cards
Mathematical and Theoretical Insights into Animal Behaviour
Hamilton w d 1964 1,
C cost to actor of social behavio...,
Cannibalism in tiger salamanders 3
15  cards
Mating Systems
1 mating system classification 1,
25 of socially monogamous birds a...,
Polygyny 3
14  cards
Cooperative Breeding
Cooperative breeding 1,
Diversity of cooperative systems 2,
Helpers at the nest 80 3
16  cards
Eusociality
Diversity of eusocial systems 1,
Myrmica rubra life cycle 2,
Eusociality describes social syst...
13  cards
Brood Parasitism CHECK PP
0  cards
The Evo of Communication CHECK PP
0  cards
SR: The Adaptiveness of Defence Behaviour
Peacock butterfly defence 1,
Many butterflies and moths includ...,
This paper has a relatively long ...
7  cards
SR: Counter Intuitive Behavior
Suppressing subordinate reproduct...,
In many animal societies a small ...,
Here subordinates themselves may ...
15  cards
SR: Post-copulation sexual selection
Individuals in socially monogamou...,
Mate compatibility is signaled by...,
We tested for adaptive female par...
19  cards
SR: Communication
Deception by flexible alarm mimic...,
Deception is common in nature but...,
Drongos produce a diversity of al...
14  cards
SR: Feeding Behaviour
The honeybee dance language in wh...,
The dance resembles a miniaturize...,
In apis mellifera the dances are ...
6  cards
SR: Cooperative Breeding
0  cards
Promiscuity - Birkhead 2000
Aristotle noticed hens copulating...,
Erasmus darwin 2,
Robert trivers 3
4  cards

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