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1) What is the definition of animal behaviour 2) What sense is not used in communication: a. Mechanical b. Thermal c. Magnetic d. Chemical e. Optical f. Electric 3) What sense use the monotremata that some fish also use? a. Electric b. Magnetic 4) What organ do the snakes use to detect preys? a. Johnston’s organ b. Jaconson’s organ c. Jacobson’s organ 5) How do intelligence transfer information? a. Transfer of information is possible without signalling and when group members do not know which individuals (if any) have information. b. Transfer of information is possible with signalling and when some members have information. 6) What do some vipers, pythons and boas to detect with their pit organ? a. Ultrasound b. Infrared c. Ultraviolet 7) Two animals from the same species are communicating via pheromones. What type of communication is it? a. Signal communication b. Cue communication 8) What are the characteristics of cognition? a. Trial and error learning b. Insight c. Immediate casual inference d. Two stage heuristic strategy e. Operant conditioning f. Pavlovian conditioning 9) What is the name of a communication signal made from different senses? a. Many modal communication b. Monomodal communication c. Multimodal communication 10) What hypothesis describes the co-evolution of a trait preferred by females? a. Fisherian runaway hypothesis b. Sexy son hypothesis c. Good genes theory d. Handicap theory 11) What does parental care have to ensure? a. Activities of an adult to enhance the survivorship of their offspring b. Each individual of the offspring wants to share with their siblings c. Each offspring should attempt to gain more from a parent than the parent will attempt to give 12) Why do males (even in biparental species) care less for their offspring than females? a. Greate b. Smaller uncertainty of parenthood c. All of the above d. None of the above 13) What is an eavesdropper? a. An unintended receiver that detects and uses the signals of other individuals for its own benefit, such as a rival mate or a predator b. An intended receiver that detects and uses the signals of other individuals for its own benefit, such as a rival mate or a predator c. An intended receiver that detects and uses the signals of other individuals to recognize the physical appearances of the sender. 14) What type of behaviour do the predators use? a. Prevent detection () b. c. Mobbing behaviour d. Aggressive 15) What behaviours are used in ‘safety in numbers’? a. Dilution effect b. Aposematism c. Predator satiation 16) What can parents have in their environment that enhances offspring survival 17) What are the 2 hypothesis of conspecific attraction? a. b. Conspecific cueing c. Bla blab la