BIOS 4730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Game Theory, Gene Flow, Shyness
26 Jan 2017
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Differential maternal investment varies by diet: females reared on high or low quality diet, hq females had larger sons, sons were also larger at sexual maturity. You are missing everything in between the extremes. Per situation: behavioral ecology studies focused primarily on a specific behavior in a specific situation, ex. Funnel spiders: aggressive female quicker to attack prey, may also kill males before or after mating, do not consume, why would this behavior persist, females must defend their funnels from other females and potential predators. If a(cid:374)other spider ki(cid:272)ks her out she(cid:859)s homeless. So she is always aggressive then: how are these two things related, aggressiveness carries over. Non-human primates: the e(cid:454)(cid:272)eptio(cid:374) to al(cid:373)ost e(cid:448)er(cid:455) rule , wealth of temperament data even in the 1908s, two potential biases, mu(cid:272)h s(cid:373)aller sa(cid:373)ple size, resear(cid:272)hers (cid:449)ere (cid:858)for(cid:272)ed(cid:859) to deal (cid:449)ith i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals(cid:859) perso(cid:374)alities, particular interest in primates because of humans.
