Animal Behavior

• "Why do birds migrate," "Why do lions live in groups" relate to what type of type of study?

  behavioral ecology
• "when he yawns i yawn" "monkey see monkey do" "birds migrating" "bird knocking eggs back into nest in a specific way" Which sentence doesn't imply a fixed action pattern?

  Birds migrating
• What external cue that cues a fixed action pattern?

  A sign stimulus
• The position of the stars or sun

  Their circadian clock

  Earth's magnetic field

  The above can all help an animals' orientation
• Nocturnal communication: olfactory and auditory

  Dinural communication: visual and auditory
• Innate behavior does not vary and is fixed
• "babies cry" Give proximate and ultimate explanations for this?

  Proximate: Pooped in diaper Ultimate: evolved to cry for help
• Cues are passive and non-evolutionary communication

  Signals influence the receptors' behavior and are evolutionary
• Knee jerk reflex, eating when hungry and cat arching back to being scratched are examples of what type of behavior?

  Innate behavior
• imprinting can only occur during the sensitive period, which is the the period where behavior can be learned
• Why do squirrels lose their food in the winter when snow covers their landmarks used to find said food?

  This is due to the squirrel's cognitive map being wrong
• How does the squirrel know where it buried it's nut?

  Because of spatial learning
• The squirrel doesn't eat the red nut because the last one it ate gave it a stomach ache. This is because of what type of learning?

  Associative learning
• A squirrel learned how to build a nest by watching other squirrels, this is due to what?

  Social learning
• Species that are polyamorous are usually sexually dimorphic
• A squirrel calls that there is a predator even though it is at greater risk of dying for the good of others, this is referred to as?

  Altruism
• 1. A male has multiple suitors
  2. A female has multiple suitors

  Polygyny, polyandry