Behavioral Ecology

What is Behavioral Ecology?

• the scientific study of the behavior, structure, physiology, classification, and distribution of animals.

• the branch of science that deals with the identification of the substances of which matter is composed

• the study of the evolutionary basis for animal behavior due to ecological pressures

• the natural science that involves the study of life and living organisms

What is Proximate Cause?

• evolutionary reasoning for an organism’s behavior

• the immediate, observable reasoning for an organism’s behavior

• an animals diet

• harrison frame

What is Social Behavior?

• the highest level of organization of animals

• gisell marstell

• how animals reproduce

• behavior among two or more organisms, typically from the same species

What is the definition of Behavior?

• an organism’s immediate and observable reason for doing something

• a skill that an animal develops after it is born

• a way in which a living thing responds to its surroundings

• a skill that an animal develops after it is born

Environment is...

• Behavior

• A house

• Factors like learned behaviors and inherited traits

• A baby

What is phototropism?

• Response to water
• Response to touch
• Response to gravity
• Response to light

What is geotropism?

• Response to water
• Response to touch
• Response to gravity
• Response to light

Response to WATER is called ________.

• Phototropism
• Hydrotropism
• Thigmotropism
• Geotropism

A plants directional growth in response to external stimuli is called ________.

• Tropism
• Taxi
• Turgor Pressure
• Homeostasis

Altruism directed toward those who are related to you. The primary motive is the increased probability of shared reproductive success due to genetic relatedness.

• kin selection

• small group reciprocal altruism

• Handicap principle

• group selection