Chapter 11 Self Quiz Summary

  Antipredator Behavior
  1. Animal response to predation includes behavior, ranging from immune responses to size selection and group tactics.
  2. Response to predation often involves a with foraging activities that affect models such as optimal foraging theory.
  3. Another tradeoff may involve choosing between different , affecting traits such as hatching time.
  4. Alarm signals include different kinds of alarm calls and tail .
  5. Prey animals sometimes approach predators, and engage in activities, usually in groups.
  6. Inspection behavior affects size, interpopulational differences may be largely shaped by selection.
  7. a predator-prey arms race may play a role in the evolution of relative size in many animals.
  8. Brain power may be useful in plasticity such as learning about predators.
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