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This scientific field focuses specifically on the study of animal behavior in natural environments.
Difficulty: Easy- Ecology
- Zoology
- Ethology
- Psychology
This model predicts that foraging animals will maximize their net energy gain per unit time by choosing optimal prey and patches.
Difficulty: Medium- Energy budget hypothesis
- Optimal foraging theory
- Marginal value theorem
- Diet breadth model
When experimental removal of the clock gene per abolishes circadian rhythms in Drosophila, this demonstrates the molecular basis of this mechanism.
Difficulty: Hard- Neural oscillation
- Transcription-translation feedback loop
- Membrane conductance cycles
- Metabolic oscillation
When newly hatched ducklings follow the first moving object they see, treating it as their mother, this phenomenon is called this.
Difficulty: Easy- Conditioning
- Imprinting
- Habituation
- Instinct
This equation, r times B greater than C, predicts when altruistic behavior toward relatives will evolve based on genetic relatedness.
Difficulty: Medium- Hamilton's rule
- Price equation
- Lotka-Volterra equation
- Hardy-Weinberg formula
When dance followers sample multiple dances before choosing which food source to visit, this information processing resembles this decision mechanism.
Difficulty: Hard- Random sampling
- Majority rule
- Threshold response
- Quorum sensing
This term describes behaviors that animals are born knowing how to do, without any learning required.
Difficulty: Easy- Innate behavior
- Learned behavior
- Social behavior
- Adaptive behavior
This German word, meaning "environmental world," describes the subjective sensory universe experienced by each animal species.
Difficulty: Medium- Gestalt
- Zeitgeber
- Umwelt
- Weltanschauung
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