Animal Behavior

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