BIOA02H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Industrial Revolution, Primary Succession, Ocean Gyre

• School: UTSC
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOA02H3
• Professor: Ivana Stehlik

Document Summary

E. g. why are most male birds more colourful than females: proximate (how) Focus on immediate causes of behaviour (mechanisms) E. g. male spiders in courtship rituals give females a piece of webbing so they don"t eat them (spider females are larger than males) Webbing is powerful because closely related species wrap food in it and give it to females whereas other species just give the food. Ethology studying behaviour or habits of an organism. Niko tinbergen: founder of experimental ethology (simple, elegant, classic experiments, turned animal behaviour into a rigorous scienti c eld, digger wasp experiment. Found that digger wasps use latent learning to identify where they are. Similar to when you go to a place often so you eventually learn the route. These wasps use nest surroundings to get back to the nest so if you move the physical characteristics (pinecones around nest), they go to the wrong spot.