BIOA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Goose Bumps, Social Grooming, Natural Selection
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Define/explain the significance of all red terms: communication is a process in which a specialized signal produced by one individual affects the behaviour of another individual. Consists of a cue which is any feature that an organism can use as a guide to display a particular behavior or series of behaviors: ex: mosquitoes detect prey (humans) by using co2 levels that we produce. We produce co2 as a by-product and mosquitoes eavesdrop" to find us, this is not beneficial to us: we use channel to send signals: Channels can be in the form of: vision (birds attracting potential mates, audition/sound (frogs, chemical (termites, touch/mechanical (spiders, electrical field (fishes, outcomes of the communicative act: When both a signaler (actor) and the receiver benefit from communication, there is a. When a signaler (actor) benefits from communication while the receiver is harmed, there is a manipulative outcome.
