Module 2 Animal behavior EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (Newest 2025) Conspicuous aposematic - Correct Answers ✅Toxc prey use color to advertise their toxicity Mullerian mimicry - Correct Answers ✅two or more unpalatable species resemble each other Batesian mimicry - Correct Answers ✅A type of mimicry in which a harmless species looks like a species that is poisonous or otherwise harmful to predators.Why do gazelles stout - Correct Answers ✅To signal thier vigour to potential predators Optimally Theory - Correct Answers ✅Attempts to predict the best way (in terms of greater fitness benefits than costs) for an individual to behave, often irrespective of what others are doing.selfish herd effect - Correct Answers ✅individuals within a population attempt to reduce their predation risk by putting other conspecifics between themselves and predators.Animals in the centre are less vulnerable to being selected than those on the edge 1 / 3
Module 2 Animal behavior EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (Newest 2025) Selfish herd is a very simplistic idea - Correct Answers ✅-If a predator is generally selective, other factors correlated with spacing (e.g size) probably explain why some predators select widely space prey.Confusion effect hypothesis - Correct Answers ✅Confuse the predator game theory model - Correct Answers ✅a model in which one analyzes the strategic interaction of individuals when they take into account the likely response of other people to their actions Game Theory Hawk vs Dove - Correct Answers ✅V= gets more offspring C= Fewer offspring V>C then a population of hawks could not be invaded by a dove(pure ESS) V Module 2 Animal behavior EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (Newest 2025) Evolutionary stable strategy - Correct Answers ✅a strategy that, once adopted, will use natural selective pressure to prevent alternate strategies from arising -Evolutionary game theory models aim to show the conditions under which a strategy is evolutionary stable Hawk Dove important insight - Correct Answers ✅-The success of each strategy depends BOTH on its payoff and the chances that it will meet an individual adopting the same or different strategy.-Whether or not the mix of strategies is stable depends on the values of resources gained(V) and the costs of being injured(C) assessing an opponents strength before attacking is advantageous -Assessment signals such as stotting of antelopes- evolve as honest indicators of strength Foraging efficiency has clear fitness benefits - Correct Answers ✅-Indirectly improves reproductive success-more energy -Directly by demonstrating good genes to females Optimality approaches also inform our understanding of animal habitat selection - Correct Answers ✅-Animals -There are selfish benefits of not being too aggressive: