Animal Behavior Exam 2

Between same species

Between different species

Stimulus that influences an individuals probability of a behavior

Information variable, increased information=decreased uncertainty about recipiant's probability of said behavior

Environmental change that has information (seasons, heat, day length..)

Behavior act that conveys information (incidental vs displays)

Adaptive and evolve from Natural Selection. more specific signal modified to enhance information transfer through ritualization

Process of evolution of displays from incidental signals (mating calls, antipredator alarm calls and alerting, aggression)

Enhancement (add something) , exaggeration (building on something) , sterotypy (low variance within individuals or low variance among individuals) , repetition (again and again). NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE

Herbivory (predatious), pollination (cooperative), seed dispersal (mutualism)

One species evolves in response to evolution in another species which in turn makes the other species evolve in response... arms race (cyclical)

Constitutive (always present, permanent part of body stucture), inducible (show defense when predation imminent/behavior components)

Warning about honest communication to predators

Mullerian (defended species resemble each other) , Baysian (defended species (often aposematic) are resembled by undefended species)

Assuming that foraging is optimized by evolution under natural selection, we can test what costs and benefits (proxies for RS) are important in explaining a given species' foraging behavior. OFT is used to generate models and predictions about foraging behavior, based on the key assumption that natural selection maximizes the efficiency of foraging