Animal Behavior

3. The process of creating offspring
5. The search for wild food and resources
7. gazelles do this when predators are nears
9. The exchange of information
11. signal Conveying accurate information about some aspect of the signaler's quality
13. the evolution of signals that happen to activate established sensory signal receivers to elicit a favorable response
14. The resemblance of one organism to another or inanimate object to increase survival.
15. Immediate reasoning for a behavior
16. birds moving south for the winter
18. killing offspring of the same species, usually done by males
19. measure of genes carried to the next generation by an individual
20. The theory of ______ was popularized by Charles Darwin
24. self-sacrificing behavior to benefit another organism
27. Using different tactics in different enviornments
28. Opposite of learned behavior
29. A method uses to study the adaptive value of traits based on the phenotypes that come with fitness benefits and costs

1. Tricking an individual that something is true when it is not
2. Saftey in numbers
4. the processes of attracting a mate
6. Something that causes a specific response
8. A natural intuition
10. An individual that produces signals to deceive others that reduces the fitness of the signal receiver
12. A trait that helps increase an individuals fitness
17. Hardwired innate response to a simple stimulus
18. Ducklings do this to the first animal they see when hatched
21. An animal that exploits parental care to individuals other than its parent
22. A neurotransmitter that mediates satisfaction
23. a trait or gene that increases an individual's fitness.
25. A type of mating system where the males and females only mate with the same individual every mating season
26. The interaction between organisms/populations that have to share a resource