ANT 301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Behavioral Ecology, Basal Metabolic Rate, Social Grooming
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Vocabulary: behavior: anything organisms do that involves action in response to internal or external stimuli. The response of an individual, group, or species to its environment. Behaviors and behavioral patterns have been favored because they increase the reproductive tness of individuals (i. e. , they are adaptive) in speci c environmental contexts: social structure: the composition, size, and sex ratio of a group of animals. Matrilineal groups are common in macaques: life history traits: characteristics and developmental stages that in uence reproductive rates. Examples include longevity, age and sexual maturity, length of time between births, etc: dominance hierarchies: systems of social organization wherein individuals within a group are ranked relative to one another. Higher-ranking animals have greater access to preferred food items and mating parters than lower-ranking individuals. Dominance hierarchies are sometimes called pecking orders. : communication: any act that conveys information, in the form of a message, to another individual.
