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