BIOA02H3 Chapter 53: Chapter 53 notes
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53. 1 : ethology: an approach to the study of animal behavior developed in europe. Emphasizes the causes of the evolution of behavior. 53. 2: deprivation experiment : investigators rear a young animal so that it is deprived of all experience relevant to the behavior under study. Interbreeding : same breed of ducks like mating calls of same breed of ducks, hybrid ducks suck at the mating call: gene knockout experiments : elminating a gene and seeing what happens, ex. Females of most species seldom fight over males, and they often reject courting males. The stars offer two sources of information about direction: moving constellations and a fixed point. When a forager bee finds food, she returns to the hive and communicates her discovery to her hivemates by dancing in the dark on the vertical surface of the honeycomb. Other bees follow and touch the dancer to interpret the message. Living in groups may confer many types of benefits.
