Ch. 20 - Communication, Aggression, and
Spatial
Relationships
1. Understand the
definition of "communication."
2. Be able to contrast,
explain, and give examples the different
types of communication:
a. display
b. signal
3. Understand how communication serves in the establishment and maintenance of spatial patterns.
4. Compare and contrast home range vs territory vs lek vs harem.
5. Be able to explain
the concept of economic dependability
and give examples of how it might appear in nature.
Ch. 21 - Sexual Selection, Parental Care,
and
Mating Systems
1. Be able to explain what anisogamy is and how it effects
mammalian
mating systems.
2. Understand how these concepts relate to sexual selection
and
give examples of each:
a. intersexual selection
b. intrasexual selection
c. dimorphism
d. indicator models
e. "Truth in advertising"
f. sperm competition
g. sparring/fighting
h. mate guarding
3. Comprehend the basics of how parental care & investment
are expressed in mammals, including:
a. the definition of parental care
b. intersexual factors
c. ecological factors, including: 1)
r-selected species, 2) k-selected species
d. parental - offspring conflicts
e. helping behavior
4. Be able to discuss how each of these relate to mammalian
mating
systems, including examples of mammals that practice these:
a. polygyny: 1) resource defense
polygyny,
2) female defense polygyny
b. polyandry
c. promiscuity
d. monogamy
Ch. 22 - Social Behavior
1. Be able to contrast and
give examples of mammal species that
practice:
a.
altruistic behavior
b.
cooperative rearing of young (not the same
as helping behavior)
c.
coalitions
d.
eusociality
2. Understand the costs and benefits associated with mammals living in groups. Be able to give specific examples of how these effect certain mammals.
3. Be able to explain
what these evolutionary factors are and
how each relates to group living and social systems in mammals:
a. kin
selection
b.
fitness
c.
inclusive fitness
d.
reciprocal altruism
e.
mutualism
a. natality vs immigration
b. mortality vs emigration
c. exponential vs arithmatic growth
2. Be able to draw and interpret the various types of:
a. life history tables
b. survivorship curves
3. Understand how "r" and "k" selected species will vary with respect to the curves in #2.
4. Define and give examples of:
a. fecundity
b. senescence
c. Liebig’s Law of Minimum
d. density dependent population limiting
factors
e. density independent population limiting
factors
2. Comprehend how these
factors relate to the structure of a community,
and be able to give a specific example of each:
a. niche
& habitat
b. competitive exclusion principle
c. character displacement
d. sympatric vs allopatric populations
e. keystone species
3. Understand what is
meant by the term "biodiversity", how it
relates to conservation, and why it is a troublesome concept in species
conservation.
Ch. 29 - Conservation
1. Understand how these factors relate to conservation:
a. habitat loss
b. habitat fragmentation
c. minimum viable population
d. historic and current human population
growth
2. Know what is the approximate size of the global population of humans and it’s current doubling time.
3. Know that at least 1 species of plant or animal goes
extinct
every day.