Animal Behavior

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Across
  1. 3. Immediate reasoning for a behavior
  2. 5. the processes of attracting a mate
  3. 8. The interaction between organisms/populations that have to share a resource
  4. 9. Ducklings do this to the first animal they see when hatched
  5. 10. The exchange of information
  6. 16. killing offspring of the same species, usually done by males
  7. 22. Evolutionary reasoning for a behavior
  8. 23. Hardwired innate response to a simple stimulus
  9. 26. Opposite of learned behavior
  10. 27. A natural intuition
  11. 28. a trait or gene that increases an individual's fitness.
  12. 29. Tricking an individual that something is true when it is not
  13. 30. The theory of ______ was popularized by Charles Darwin
  14. 31. The resemblance of one organism to another or inanimate object to increase survival.
Down
  1. 1. An animal that exploits parental care to individuals other than its parent
  2. 2. measure of genes carried to the next generation by an individual
  3. 4. The process of creating offspring
  4. 6. A method uses to study the adaptive value of traits based on the phenotypes that come with fitness benefits and costs
  5. 7. the evolution of signals that happen to activate established sensory signal receivers to elicit a favorable response
  6. 11. Using different tactics in different enviornments
  7. 12. birds moving south for the winter
  8. 13. Something that causes a specific response
  9. 14. A neurotransmitter that mediates satisfaction
  10. 15. gazelles do this when predators are nears
  11. 17. The search for wild food and resources
  12. 18. signal Conveying accurate information about some aspect of the signaler's quality
  13. 19. An individual that produces signals to deceive others that reduces the fitness of the signal receiver
  14. 20. self-sacrificing behavior to benefit another organism
  15. 21. A type of mating system where the males and females only mate with the same individual every mating season
  16. 24. Saftey in numbers
  17. 25. A trait that helps increase an individuals fitness