ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR QUIZ

1. intra-sexual selection is where:
sexual selection favours the ability of one sex for competition
sexual selection makes one sex more attractive than the other
sexual selection takes on a life of its own

2. Who said that once selection for something starts, it ends up taking on a life of its own?
B.F. Skinner
Jack Bradbury
Robert Fisher

3.  Who said infanticide was due to sexual competition between males?
G. C Williams
Sarah Hrdy
V. C. Wynne-Edwards

4.  When Pavlov rang the bells for the dogs, this was the:
Conditional response
Unconditional response
Conditional stimulus
Unconditional stimulus

5.  Altruism is behaviour:
That is selfishness
That is a cost to ones self
Where males group together

6.  Andersson experimented on tail length with:
Langurs
Long Tailed widow birds
African Paradise birds

7.  Female animals associated with leks prefer males who:
pretend to be more superior
sneak in a chance of mating
show costly displays

8.  A male hotshot is where:
ugly males hang around good looking males to improve their chances of mating
a really good looking male gets all the attention
groups of good males hang around together to increase their chances of mating

9.  A lek is:
some one who is on the look out for predators
a male who spies on women
a display site in which males congregate and females visit only to find a mate

10. In artificially enlarged clutches of birds the parents experience:
a decrease in fitness
an increase in fitness
no change in fitness