Across
- 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
Down
- 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