Animal Behavior

• Taxis is the nonrandom change in speed or direction to a stimulus
• Search images are when organisms use images to abbreviate what food their prey looks like
• Kinesis is the random change in speed or direction to stay in favorable environments
• Semelparity describes animals that mate once during their lifespan, producing many offspring with low survival rate
• Iteroparity describes animals that reproduce multiple times over their lifespan, producing little offspring with high survival rate