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Introductory Biology

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Set 43 Behavioral Ecology

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Question 1

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A newborn chick can accurately peck at food without other chicks around to serve as models.Newborn geese considered Konrad Lorenz to be their mother because he was the first creature they saw and heard after they hatched.Are these the same "type" of inherited behavior? Compare and contrast these two behaviors.

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The pecking of the newborn chick appears...

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Question 2

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The type of learning that is associated with an organism solving a problem without any prior experiences with the situation is called

A)operant conditioning.
B)imprinting.
C)associative learning.
D)insight learning.

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Question 3

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Which of the following is a disadvantage of maintaining a large territory?

A)There will be a large number of females that reside within the territory.
B)There will be a large diversity of food types within the territory.
C)There will be ample room for nesting sites.
D)It will be energetically expensive to control and defend the territory.
E)All of the choices are disadvantages of a large territory.

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