1What is Dilution effect
The reduced probability of predation for a single animal when it is in a group.
2What is a Lek?
A gathering area where males congregate to perform courtship displays, competing with one another over a mate.
3How can living in a group help organisms?
Vigilance and Dilution effect
4What is the value of group living to reproduction?
Offspring remain with parents to form family groups. Living together makes mate selection easier.
5How can living in groups decrease an organisms survival?
Large groups face increased competition for food, more disease and parasite outbreaks.
6What is the donor?
The individual who directs a behavior toward another individual as part of social interaction.
7What is the recipient?
The individual who recieves the behavior of a donor in a social interaction.
8What is it called when both the donor and recipient benefit with increased fitness from a social interaction?
Cooperation
9Describe selfishness/spitefulness in Ecology
When both the recipient and donor experience decreased fitness from a social interaction.
10What is Altruism?
When the donor decreases in fitness but the recipient increases as a result of a social interaction.
11What social interaction is most common in large groups?
Altruism
12What is the relativeness to your cousin?
0.125
13What is a Eusocial group?
A type of animal society in which individuals live in large groups with overlapping generations, cooperation in nest building and brood care and reproductive dominane by one or more individuals.
14What is Haplodiploid?
A sex determination system in which one sex is haploid and the other sex is diploid.
15What is the relativeness to your nephew?
0.25
16What is the relativeness to your half brother?
0.25