Exam 56: Animal Behavior

The courtship display of the wandering albatross is primarily a(n)____display. ​

A worker bee that is a day old is most likely to perform which function? ​

Pheromones are ____ signals. ​

When one male and one female form a long-term association, the mating system is referred to as ____. ​

Which type of signal only operates over very short distances? ​

  Figure 56.2 . Answer the question using the accompanying figure. Bees C and D ____. ​

A subordinate animal in a dominance hierarchy has limited access to food and mates. The most likely reason he remains in a social group that dominates him is because ____. ​

The most complex wayfinding mechanism is ____, in which animals use both a compass and a mental map of the area. ​

Experiments on the feeding preferences of newborn garter snakes born to coastal vs. inland California revealed that even in the same species, differential instinctive responses can be ____.

How does losing or acquiring territory affect the brain anatomy and chemistry of an African cichlid fish?

When behavioral biologists look at the ultimate evolutionary benefit of animal communication, they are primarily focusing on the effects of the communication on the individual's ability to ____. ​

The degree of relatedness between a niece and an uncle is ____, and the degree of relatedness between first cousins is ____. ​

In honeybees, queen bees are haploid organisms while male drones are diploid.

As a result of the hormonal and neuroanatomical differences between the male and female brains of zebra finches, ____. ​

Place the events illustrating how genes and hormones interact in the development of behavior in the correct order. 1. target neurons change intracellularly 2. hormones change genetic activity and enzymatic biochemistry in their target neurons 3. genes code for hormone production 4. animal's behavior changes