Animal behaviour

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Decks in this class (15)

L1
Which three ethologists were join...,
What are tinburgens four question...,
What is considered when looking a...
11  cards
L2 Proximate and Ultimate - why birds sing
What are proximate causes of beha...,
What are ultimate causes of behav...,
What questions should you ask abo...
15  cards
L3 Proximate mechanisms of behaviour - bird senses
What is the pathway of a reaction...,
What is a sensory modality,
What are the sensory modalities i...
22  cards
L4 Hormones, clocks and behaviour
What type of factor influencing b...,
What causes eating behaviour,
What hormones control hunger
29  cards
L5 Developement of behaviour - genes
What did charles darwin assume ab...,
What did francis galton assume ab...,
What is artificial selection
16  cards
L6 - Environment and behaviour
What effect do genes and the envi...,
How is the honey bee used to inte...,
What are the effects on early nut...
10  cards
L7 Reproduction - sperm competition
What is individual selection,
What is sexual selection,
What is post copulatory sexual se...
18  cards
L8 Social Behaviour, Kinship and cooperation
What are the costs of living on a...,
What are the benefits of group li...,
How did they test whether chick s...
8  cards
L9 Agression
Where does testosterone come from...,
What is the role of testosterone,
What do high levels of testostero...
15  cards
L10 Communication
What is cumulative selection,
What has cumulative selection in ...,
What is the adaptive significance...
14  cards
L11 Reproductive behaviour
Which sex has greatest reproducti...,
What is the operational sex ratio,
What is parental investment
12  cards
L11 Mating systems
What is monogamy,
Golygamy,
Polyandry
13  cards
L 13 Play
What are the three types of play,
What is behalf and byers definiti...,
What are the problems with this d...
7  cards
L14 Personality
What are the pathways in an intro...,
What are the pathways in an extro...,
Who conducted an experiment on ob...
8  cards
L15 Learning
What are the steps to adhere to w...,
What are taxes,
What makes a behaviour genetic
18  cards

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