[LIFESCI 3C03] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (88 pages long)
29 Nov 2016
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Behavioural ecology combines behaviour, ecology (stage on which individuals play their. Causal and developmental factors are proximate explains how individual comes to. Adaptive advantage and evolution are ultimate explain why and how the individual has. Within a pride, all females are related. Males at 3 years leave their natal pride. After years as nomads, they attempt to take over another pride from old and weak males. Stay in pride for another 2-3 years until they are driven out. Male reproductive life is short evolved the behaviour separately interrelated males present for a shorter time: adaptive advantage: different litters in pride born at same time and cub born. Lion pride consists of a permanent group of closely related females and a smaller group of synchronously survive better. There is communal suckling, so cub can suck from another mother when own mother is hunting.
