After reading this chapter and analyzing the content, it is assumed that you can: - Compare and contrast approaches of comparative psychology and ethology.
- Use the terms releaser, sign stimulus, and stereotyped behavior to describe the egg–retrieval behavior of greylag geese.
- Distinguish between habituation and imprinting providing examples of each.
- Relate evidence that shows hygienic behavior in bees is transmitted by two independently segregating genes.
- Discuss advantages and disadvantages of sociality in animals.
- Describe how a territory is established and kept.
- Explain how the three forms of polygyny differ from each other.
- Relate an example of altruistic behavior and explain how the behavior conflicts with Darwin's expectation that animals should act selfishly to produce as many offspring as possible.
- Discuss Hamilton's hypotheis of kin selection.
- Comment on limitations of animal communication compared to those of human communication.
- Discuss the purpose of the waggle and round dance of honey bees.
- Explain what is meant by "ritualization" in display communication and the adaptive significance of ritualization.
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