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Monotremes   egg-laying mammals  
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What are some characteristics of monotremes?   heavy fur coat w/ specialized spines, mammary glands, endothermic, males have real spur but doesn't function in terms of venom injection  
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Baby monotremes   puggles  
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Echidnas   called spiny anteaters, have spines for defense, small mouth at tip of nose, have pouch  
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Platypus   aerodynamic swimmer, good insulative fur coat, has broad tail for fat storage, front feet are fully webbed while back feet are partially webbed, have no pouch, young suckle milk on ventral side of mom in fur  
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Marsupials   young are born at an extremely young physiological age and are then nurtured in pouch  
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Animal behavior is insight into human behavior. T/F?   True  
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Charles Darwin   observed a lot and treated behavior as being very important for animal's survival; paved way for objective scientific experiment  
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J. Henri Fabre   made detailed observations of animal in their natural surroundings and was the first to keep minute and orderly records  
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C. Lloyd Morgan   showed that someone can often find a simpler process to explain the act of an animal and that the simplest may be the right one  
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Ivan Pavlov   developed key concept of the conditioned reflex; experiments with dogs  
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Konrad Lorenz Austrian   an animal's behavior was part of its equipment for survival and product of adaptive evolution  
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Niko Tinbergen   attempted to understand how complex behavior machinery of each animal helps it meet many pressures of its environment; observed how birds recognize eggs  
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John Wiley and Sons   wrote Social Behavior in Animals  
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Tinbergen's 4 Aspects of animal behavior   ontogeny, function, phylogeny, causation  
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Ontogeny   behavioral development  
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Function   beneficial consequences of behavior which confer an increase in reproductive success on possessor's genotype  
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Phylogeny   evolution of behavior  
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Causation   proximal mechanisms that give rise to behavior  
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Evolution   involves changes in gene structure of a population and differential reproduction of genotypes  
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Success   from a genetic perspective, it's the ability to leave viable offspring  
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Silver Foxes   Russia selected them for tamability; most tame 5% males and 20% females were chosen as parents; became more playful with humans over time  
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Artificial Selection   Darwin believed domestic animals were modified through unconscious selection long before people selected for specific traits  
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What does selecting for anatomical or productivity traits change?   Susceptibility to social stress, reproductive capabilities, behaviors, functional characteristics, and resistance/susceptibility to disease  
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World expert on cheetahs   Laurie Marker  
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Cheetah physical attributes   rough coat(not hunted for pelts), low fertility, high incidence of birth defects, weak immune systems  
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Cheetah social order   females define social order; females are solitary, choose a mate and then raise cubs alone; males form coalitions of siblings who hunt together and may stay together for life  
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Cheetah reproduction   females mature at two years old and leave their natal families at that time; mothers move their cubs to a new den every den almost every night for first 6 weeks  
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King Cheetahs   cheetahs born with stripes instead of spots  
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Cheetah challenges   50-75% of cubs die within months of birth; hunted heavily in last century; genetic problems  
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Cheetah genetic problems   very low sperm count; very little to no genetic variability(practically clones); many killed because of viral peritonitis  
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Tiger   largest of cat species; usually hunt alone  
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Lion   second largest of big cat species; females do most hunting; most sociable(live in prides)  
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Jaguar   third largest of big cat species;  
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Behavior   all processes by which an animal senses the external world and the internal state of its body and responds to the changes which it perceives  
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Social behavior   any behavior caused by or affecting another animal  
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Sociobiology   biological basis of social behavior, implying evolution as the basic explanatory tool  
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Inclusive fitness   sum of an individual's fitness measured by reproductive success and the fitness of relatives, weighted in proportion to their genetic distance from individual  
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Physiological   how body works  
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Whole animal   behavior of intact animal  
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Physiological approach   evaluation of control mechanisms which govern responses of components; examine basic components of living organism; study interactions among these components  
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Whole animal approach   psychologists - learning often in labs; ethologists - naturally occurring, unlearned behaviors  
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Social facilitation   phenomenon in which behavior of an animal increases occurrence of same behavior among its social partners  
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Allelomimetic behavior   behavioral activities that have strong components of social facilitation, imitation and group coordination  
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History of individual   individual is able to modify behavior in light of experiences; open genetic program  
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History of species   individual is born with favorable responses "built in" to the nervous system as part of inherited structure; instinctive or closed genetic program  
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Species memory   passed from each generation to offspring in the next generation  
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Epigenetics   altering gene function without altering DNA; genes turn on or off depending on environmental conditions  
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Successful adaptation of rabbits   european rabbits were introduced into Australia and adapted to the point of causing the decline of many Australia's midsized terrestrial mammals; RCD(rabbit calicivirus disease was released  
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Recombination   results in transfer of genetic material from parent to offspring in species with two sexes  
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Selection   differential survival of particular alleles or genotypes; can be natural or artificial; neutral selection may occur  
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Migration   introduction of novel genetic material of loss of existing genetic material; changes in climate, bodies of water, mountain ranges can lead to different migrations along with speciation  
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Mutation   alteration in genetic makeup changes DNA sequences; occurs at random; may inhibit development of individual; may allow development but not change much at population level  
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Random drift   change in allelic frequencies due purely to chance; founder effects can influence population composition; population bottlenecks can occur and will certainly alter composition of genome  
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ESS   Evolutionary Stable Strategies; activity which is consistently successful; frequency dependent; best strategy for individual depends on what majority of population is doing  
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Hawks and Doves   two types of behavior within a species  
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What causes copulation frequency to be higher in some colonial species vs. others?   sperm competition; colonial species where male is not always present  
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Inheritance of Intelligence theory   someone can obtain eggs from models or brilliant people to produce "perfect child" from shopping on the internet  
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Temple Grandin   wrote Genetics and Behavior of Domestic Animals  
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Blackcaps were experimented on to test what?   duration and intensity of migratory restlessness; distinct differences of 4 populations; hybrids had intermediate values for migratory restlessness  
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What were results of cumulative number of completed matings(CNCM)for quail?   CNCMs increased over time in high lines and decreased over time for low lines  
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