Week 10: Social Play and Behaviour

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Across
  1. 3. Prey species migrating together in large numbers in efforts to overwhelm possible predators
  2. 5. Behaving in a manner that benefits another individual at the cost of one’s own personal fitness
  3. 7. Establishing a 'leader' or 'alpha' of the group to decrease aggression in competition for resources
  4. 10. Individuals and/or organisms that belong to the same species
  5. 11. A mating system in which one male procreates with multiple females, females procreate with one male, and the females mainly raise the offspring(s)
  6. 12. Actions an individual takes to increase both their personal fitness and the fitness of others that carry the same genes/others in their family
  7. 13. A mating system in which one male and one female bond, procreate, and raise their offspring(s) together
Down
  1. 1. Prey species forming a group amongst each other to collectively attack a predator
  2. 2. An individual assisting a relative with the reproduction process to pass down heritable behaviours
  3. 4. A mating system in which males and females procreate unsystematically with no bonding, and females care for the offspring(s)
  4. 6. The act of an individual extending a favour with the expectation that a favour will be returned at a future time
  5. 8. A mating system in which one female procreates with multiple males, males procreate with one female, and the males mainly raise the offspring(s)
  6. 9. Behaving in a manner that is beneficial to the individual at the cost of others