Crews and Colleagues (1984, 1987) Examined Patterns of Reproduction with Regard

Multiple Choice

Crews and colleagues (1984, 1987) examined patterns of reproduction with regard to (1) gamete production, (2) secretion of sex steroids, and (3) timing of mating behavior in a wide variety of vertebrates and found that three general patterns of reproduction emerged. The zebra finch, for example, which lives in the deserts of Australia where rainfall occurs rarely and unpredictably, court, copulate, and build nests within hours of a significant rainfall. This pattern would be an example of a(n)

A) associated reproductive pattern.
B) dissociated reproductive pattern.
C) interventional reproductive pattern.
D) opportunistic reproductive pattern.