Comparative Psychology Hooten

The flagging behavior displayed by birds when predators are near by is viewed as

A form of parental behavior

Which of the following is an example of primary defense against predators

Camouflague

Which of the following animal classifications is NOT a group to which human beings belong

Carnivora

Founders of modern studies of animal behavior and comparative psychology are considered to be

Charles Darwin and George Romanes

Darwin us given credit for the theory of evolution, rather than A. R. Wallace because

Darwin provided more evidence to support the theory

What influential individual considered animals to be biological machines

Descartes

The most successful hunters on the African Plains are

Wild dogs

The food of leaf cutter ants is

a fungus to which they feed the chewed up leaves too

A plant which captures and eats insets is

a predator

Ethology began from the work of two biologists,

Heinroth AND Whitman

The viceroy butterfly has evolved to resemble the monarch butterfly which is

Inedible to birds

When birds dive and chirp at other animals that approach in nests this is called

Mobbing

After WWII Lorenz, Tinbergen, von Frisch did work that became the founding of

Modern Ethology

The explanatory idea at the center of Darwin's theory of evolution was

Natural Selection

During the winter months monarch butterflies

Neither fly nor eat

which ONE of the following statements are TRUE

New species are being discovered all the time

Using familiar landmarks to find ones way from one place to another

Piloting

African wild dogs and spotted hyenas generally

Pursue their prey until it tires out

Wolf packs typically capture their prey y

Pursuit over several miles

Darwin maintained that diffference between animals and humans are

Quantitative

After a group of lions bring down large prey animal, who eats first

The dominant male

In most birds their biological clocks are set by

The photoperiod

If a bat comes to close to a moths the moth can detect the bats echolocation and take action by

Diving wildly and erratically

When an animal strikes out from its birth site to seek a new location that provides food and mating opportunities, naturalists call this journey

dispersal

Zebra stripes make it difficult for predatiors to detect the body contour, a phenomenon called

disruptive coloration

In general it is better to be

either a specialist or generalist depending on the circumstances the animal is in

A member of the seal family which has migration route about as long as the gray whale is

elephant seal

Hunters such as wild dogs and hyenas wills witch from one prey species to another

just for the sake of variety in diet

The farther north a bird species breeds the

larger number of offspring it will have

The concept of a search image refers to the fact that

predators get better at finding their prey with greater exposure to it

The journeys of lemmings every four of five years are

really dispersal rather than migration

Which one of the following is an example of primary defense against predators

retreating into a protective shell, turtle

Honeybees locate the flowers containing nectar that they need or food by

seeing the flower in the ultraviolet

The sand scorpion can locate prey by

vibrating sensors in its legs

Eagles primarily use ... to locate prey, owls use ...

vision hearing

If a food source is more than 100 meters from the hive, the honeybee performs a dance that contains information about both the distance and direction of the source, namely the

waggle dance

Harris hawks often capture prey rabbits by

using a variety of hunting techniques

Modern understanding of animal behavior began in which century

19th

In the history of western science the 'father of biology' and the 'father of psychology is considered to be

Aristotle

When asked why an animal behaves the way it does

Functional causes Proximate causes evolutionary history

The nearest group of animals to which a species belongs is its

Genus

Peppered moths studied by Kettlewell illustrates

Industrial melanism

Relative to most prey species, predators often

Longer periods of learning and development

The knowledge of an animal has about its current location relative to the goal of its migration is the

Map Sense

The study by Kacelink of foraging in starlings showed that currency for parent starlings

Maximizing rate of food delivery to their young

When a prey species comes to resemble something dangerous to a predator this is called

Mertensian Mimicry

When a prey animal is confronted wiht a predator the most common response is

Run away

Once a thomson gazelle detects a cheetah it may

Stot

Indigo buntings have a predisposition to learn

Which sky pattern they see when they are growing up

A newly hatched duckling will imprint on

any large object that moves in its visual field

For two individual animals of the same opposite sex to be members of the same species they must

be able to interbred look like one another associate with one another on a daily basis

Of the different disciplines that study animals, the most recent to develop is

behavioral ecology

The gray whale illustrates how a migrating animal

can use one site almost exclusively for feeding that other for reproduction

When the current foraging site decreases its food output chipmunks

check alternative foraging sites

Flowering plants and insects such as honeybees have evolved together in mutual dependence

coevolution

In history of comparative psychology, psychologists

developmental causes of behavior

The scientific names of animal species are

different from common names printed in italics or underlined in latin

Rattlesnakes can strike in total darkness b using

heat detectors in its head

Compared to biologists, animal psychologists tend to

focus more on laboratory experiments

Those behaviors that an animal uses to find and capture the food it needs are included in

foraging

Catocala moths are unusual in the their wings

have camo and warning displays

In his study of honeybees, Karl von Frisch discovered

how bees communicate with one another by doing some kind of dance

In medieval times, bestiaries were

illustrated books of factual and fictional animals

Proximate causes of animal behavior focus on

immediate circumstances that led to a behavior

Great Dane, German Shepard, Golden Retriever. Which level of taxonomy do these terms refer to

variety

Recent evidence shows that the number of Canada Lynx in the wild

may be affected by the number of snowshoe hares

Pikas will feed exclusively on

mediocre to poor sites near their nests

An animals periodical journey to a place that alternates with a return to the original place is a

migration

Zach's study of crows and whelks in Canada sowed crows choose dropping heights that

minimize total vertical flight per whelk

One disadvantage of migrating each year rather than not migrating is that the migrator

must compete for new territory each year

Bats probably developed migration in response to

needs for food, insects

Squrriels and chipmunks store up food to

occainsionally eat from their stores in the winter

about what proportion of all bird species have osme kind of migratory movement each year

one half

When wolves encounter moose in the wild the wolves

only rarely capture a healthy adult moose

in baleen whales, the baleens are

plates which filter out small crustaceans for food

Environmental stimulus that triggers fixed action patterns in an animal is called

sign stimulus

A hedgehog protects itself by

smearing toads toxins over it body

A movement in biology which focuses on the biological roots of social behavior in animals is

sociobiology

The decision of what to eat depends on

the availability of the most preferred food

The most important set of organizing principals in the study of animal behavior is provided by

the classification system of Linnaeus

During medieval period, thinking about nature of humans and animals was dominated by

the doctorine of mind-body dualism

The evolutionary arms race between two species will remain stable over a long period of time when

the prey species stays ahead of the predator species through its capacity to produce more offspring

With John B. Watson, american psychology began

the rise of behaviorism

Functional causes of animal behavior focus on

the value of behavior has for animals survival

When the Stars, sun, and landmarks cues are made unavailable to homing pigeons

they find their way home using geomagnetic cues

The freezing defensive strategy used by the oppossum is called

tonic immobility

In species that live in water the ultimate camouflague is

transparency

In general most species of bats

use echolocation

Birds that migrate primarily at night

use the position of stars to navigate

Even when pigeons can not see landmarks they can

use the sun to find their way home