Animal behaviour - year 2

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Lecture 1 - Evolutionary approach
What are the two basic questions ...,
What does proximate mean and what...,
What does ultimate mean and what ...
12  cards
Lecture 2 - counter intuitive behaviour
Hanuman langurs live in social gr...,
Explain the likelihood of each of...,
Describe the logic of group selec...
16  cards
Lecture 3 - feeding behaviour
Why was the evolution of feeding ...,
How did tinbergen come up with th...,
How did pietrewicz and kamil test...
30  cards
Lecture 4 - optimal foraging
Why does natural selection favour...,
Who pioneered optimality modellin...,
What is optimality logic
25  cards
Lecture 5 - avoiding predation
Definition of an adaptation,
What is an important thing to rem...,
What is anti predator behaviour
26  cards
Lecture 6 - sexual selection
Describe darwins theory of natura...,
What was darwins problem with the...,
What is darwins theory of sexual ...
29  cards
Lecture 7 - the evolution of sex, sperm competition, cryptic female choice and alternative mating strategies
What was the ancestral state of g...,
Describe the graphical model used...,
When would the advantage of small...
22  cards
Lecture 8 - research seminar - Adelie penguins
What happens if males cant mate g...,
What can be studies to determine ...,
How do american kestrels mate
23  cards
Lecture 9 - Mathmatical and theoretical insights into animal behaviour
What do you need to make predictions,
What is the inclusive fitness theory,
Who came up with the inclusive fi...
37  cards
Lecture 10 - mating systems
What does mating system classific...,
What is monogamy and what animals...,
How many socially monogamous bird...
26  cards
Lecture 11 - cooperative breeding
What is cooperative breeding,
Why is cooperative breeding an ev...,
Describe the diversity of coopera...
34  cards
Lecture 12 - Eusociality
Why did darwin question eusociality,
Describe the diversity of eusocia...,
What are 3 key features of eusoci...
25  cards
Lecture 13 - brood parasitism
Why is parasitism expected to be ...,
What are intraspecific brood para...,
How are cliff swallows cryptic wi...
31  cards
Lecture 14 - the evolution of communication
2 examples of deceptive communica...,
Example of sexual deception in fl...,
Example of sexual deception in fish
20  cards
special reading - 1 - The adaptiveness of defence behaviour
What were the hypotheses tested,
Who wrote the paper,
Describe the treatment methods
10  cards
Special reading - counter intuitive behaviour -1 - supressing subordinates in meerkats
Who wrote the paper,
What are the hypotheses,
What is the aim of the paper
9  cards
Special reading - counter intuitive behaviour -2- filial cannabilism in sand gobys
Who is the paper written by,
Background info,
What was the question of the expe...
10  cards
special reading - cooperative breeding - 1 - helping effort in bell miners
What is the aim of this paper,
What are they exploring,
What were the results
6  cards
special reading - cooperative breeding 2 - helper effort in birds
What are the hypotheses,
What was the methods,
What were the results
7  cards
Special reading - feeding behaviour - 1 - honey bee waggle dance
What were the hypotheses,
What are the aims of the investig...,
What kind of treatments were used
7  cards
Special reading - Feeding behaviour - Honeybee navigation : Nature and calibration of the "the Odometer" in honeybees
What were the aims,
What are the two hypotheses,
What are the methods
5  cards
special reading - post copulation sexual selection - 1 - multiple mating and genetically loaded sperm competition in gouldian finch
What is the question of the exper...,
What is the hypothesis,
What is the aim
7  cards
Special reading- post copulation sexual selection 2 - cryptic female choice for nuptial gifts
Background info,
What is the hypothesis,
What is the methods
6  cards
Special reading - communication 1 - deception by flexible alarm mimicry in an African bird
What are the hypotheses,
What are the methods for the impo...,
Methods for variance of false ala...
6  cards
special reading - communication - 2 - reciprocal signalling in honeyguide - human- mutualism
What is the question,
Background info,
What are the methods general info
6  cards

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