Ch 39: Animal Behavior

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Across
  1. 3. a transmitted stimulus that can occur in the form of sounds, scents, displays, or touches
  2. 5. behavior that reduces an individual's fitness while increasing the fitness of others in the population
  3. 6. an animal that eats nearly anything readily available
  4. 9. behavior that includes threats, rituals, and combat
  5. 11. random movement in response to a stimulus
  6. 13. problem-solving behavior relies on this
  7. 15. questions that focus on the evolutionary cause of behavior
Down
  1. 1. irreversible learning limited to a sensitive time period
  2. 2. learning to ignore a repeated, unimportant stimulus
  3. 4. a change in behavior resulting from experience
  4. 7. everything an animal does and how it does it
  5. 8. questions that focus on the immediate cause of behavior
  6. 10. fixed action patterns describe _____ behaviors that exhibit unchangeable sequences
  7. 12. an animal that eats only specific foods that are available
  8. 14. mostly automatic movement directed toward or away from a stimulus