LIFESCI 3C03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-12: Great Tit, Phenotypic Plasticity, Parental Investment
17 Feb 2017
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Tinbergen(cid:495)s 4 why questions: questions that answered (cid:494)why(cid:495) questions about behaviour. How does an individual"s independent mechanisms work to display that behaviour. Function: the adaptive advantage of the behaviour. Phylogeny: the evolutionary history behind the behaviour. The phylogenetic context in which the behaviour is found under. Proximate behaviour: explain how an individual comes to behave in a particular way during its lifetime. Ultimate behaviour: help explain why that behaviour is present in the species in the first place. Males live as nomads for some time until they find another pride to try and take over. Males stay for a few years in new prides until they are driven out by another male. Most females comes to oestrus around same time. Advantage of synchronized oestrus: cubs born together have greater chance of survival - if one female is out hunting another female can rear her child in its place.
