CHDV 23249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Poison Dart Frog, Semelparity And Iteroparity, Parental Investment

• School: University of Chicago
• Department: Comparative Human Development
• Course: CHDV 23249
• Professor: Misha Blizardand Christina Masco

Document Summary

Research proposal initial drafts due feb. 8th at midnight. Write it as if it is your final draft think about it critically: you"re trying to convince the reader to provide funding for you. Not grading on incredible question, but on submission of question start setting up appnt for meeting up with ta after turning it in. Today"s lecture will not be in the midterm, but will be on the final. Poison dart frogs lays one tadpole in leaves, tadpoles exhibit begging behavior (wag tails when they are hungry) Dad keeps eye on tadpoles, call mom when tadpole begs. Mom lays unfertilized egg as food for tadpole if pool of water dries up, male takes tadpole and transfers it to a different leaf. Parental care is the behaviors seen feed, move, protect offspring, provide models for learned behaviors, protection against predators. Reproductive effort total sum of all energy spent on the offspring. Breeding risk (finding mate and caring for offspring)