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Behavioral Ecology

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show Study of animal behavior  
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Behavior   show
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Proximate Questions   show
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"Does the day length trigger courtship behaviors?"   show
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show "Why" questions, how the behavior is adaptive  
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"Why court at this time?"   show
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show Study of behavior in nature  
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show Ultimate question  
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How does it aid survival and reproduction?   show
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Fixed Action Patterns   show
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Greyleg Goose   show
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Three-spined Stickleback   show
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show Forming a bond during a critical period  
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Innate Behavior   show
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Signal   show
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Communication   show
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show Simple change in activity or turning rate in response to a stimulus  
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show Automatic, oriented movement toward or away from some stimulus  
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Trout   show
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Learning   show
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Habituation   show
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Spatial Learning   show
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show Use landmarks- location indicators  
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show Not only learning landmarks but the relationships between objects to reduce the amount of detail needed to relocate an item  
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Clark's nutcrackers   show
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Associative Learning   show
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Classical conditioning   show
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Pavlov's Dogs   show
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show Pairing behavior with reward or punishment  
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show Operant conditioning  
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Tic-Tac-Toe Chickens   show
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show Ability to pick up information and process it  
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Cognitive Ethology   show
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show Optimizing nutrition while minimizing obtaining costs  
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show Members of one sex selecting males based on trait of the other sex  
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show Often reutilized contest/fight for resources  
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Nash's Game Theory   show
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Side-blotched Lizards   show
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show Game theory  
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Altruism   show
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Prairie dog warnings   show
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show Aiding those closely relating to you so that the genes you share can increase in the populations  
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Kin Selection   show
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Reciprocal Altruism   show
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Social Learning   show
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Culture   show
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Mate choice copying   show
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Sociobiology   show
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show Classical conditioning  
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BF Skinner   show
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Wilson   show
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show Wasps and Sickleback fish  
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Lorenz   show
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Sign Stimulus   show
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show Prairie Vole Monogamy  
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show Cooperation, Communication, Diminish ni aggression  
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show Marine Isopods  
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