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74 relations: Adaptationism, African buffalo, Agonistic behaviour, Alarm signal, Animal, Animal communication, Anti-predator adaptation, Aphelocoma, Biological specificity, Bird, Bird of prey, Black-headed gull, Bluegill, Burrow, California ground squirrel, Camouflage, Carrion crow, Co-operation (evolution), Common snapping turtle, Confusion, Convergent evolution, Crypsis, Daniel T. Blumstein, Darwinism, Defecation, Divergent evolution, Ethology, Evolution, Evolutionarily stable strategy, Evolutionary pressure, Experiment, Fish, Game theory, Gene-centered view of evolution, Great tit, Gull, Handicap principle, Hypothesis, Inclusive fitness, Injury, Instinct, Kin selection, Kittiwake, Konrad Lorenz, Lanchester's laws, Learning, Loreal pit, Mammal, Meerkat, Mobbing, ..., Mobbing (animal behavior), Natural selection, Nest, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Offspring, On Aggression, Owl, PDF, Phainopepla, Photography, Phylogenetic comparative methods, Pituophis, Plumage, Predation, Rattlesnake, Science (journal), Sexual selection, Signalling theory, Social behavior, Songbird, Sound, Stotting, Swallow, W. D. Hamilton. Expand index (24 more) »
Adaptationism
Adaptationism is the Darwinian view that many physical and psychological traits of organisms are evolved adaptations.
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African buffalo
The African buffalo or Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a large African bovine.
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Agonistic behaviour
Agonistic behaviour is any social behaviour related to fighting.
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Alarm signal
In animal communication, an alarm signal is an antipredator adaptation in the form of signals emitted by social animals in response to danger.
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Animal
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.
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Animal communication
Animal communication is the transfer of information from one or a group of animals (sender or senders) to one or more other animals (receiver or receivers) that affects the current or future behavior of the receivers.
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Anti-predator adaptation
Anti-predator adaptations are mechanisms developed through evolution that assist prey organisms in their constant struggle against predators.
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Aphelocoma
The passerine birds of the genus Aphelocoma include the scrub jays and their relatives.
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Biological specificity
In biology, biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species.
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Bird
Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
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Bird of prey
A bird of prey, predatory bird, or raptor is any of several species of bird that hunts and feeds on rodents and other animals.
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Black-headed gull
The black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) is a small gull that breeds in much of Europe and Asia, and also in coastal eastern Canada.
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Bluegill
The bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) is a species of freshwater fish sometimes referred to as bream, brim, or copper nose.
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Burrow
A burrow is a hole or tunnel excavated into the ground by an animal to create a space suitable for habitation, temporary refuge, or as a byproduct of locomotion.
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California ground squirrel
The California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi), is a common and easily observed ground squirrel of the western United States and the Baja California Peninsula; it is common in Oregon and California and its range has relatively recently extended into Washington and northwestern Nevada.
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Camouflage
Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see (crypsis), or by disguising them as something else (mimesis).
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Carrion crow
The carrion crow (Corvus corone) is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae and the genus Corvus which is native to western Europe and eastern Asia.
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Co-operation (evolution)
In evolution, co-operation is the process where groups of organisms work or act together for common or mutual benefits.
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Common snapping turtle
The common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) is a large freshwater turtle of the family Chelydridae.
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Confusion
Confusion (from Latin confusĭo, -ōnis, from confundere: "to pour together;" "to mingle together;" "to confuse") is the state of being bewildered or unclear in one’s mind about something.
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Convergent evolution
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages.
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Crypsis
In ecology, crypsis is the ability of an animal to avoid observation or detection by other animals.
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Daniel T. Blumstein
Daniel T. Blumstein is a prominent ethologist and conservation biologist.
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Darwinism
Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.
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Defecation
Defecation is the final act of digestion, by which organisms eliminate solid, semisolid, or liquid waste material from the digestive tract via the anus.
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Divergent evolution
Divergent evolution is the accumulation of differences between groups, leading to the formation of new species.
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Ethology
Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive trait.
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Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Evolutionarily stable strategy
An evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) is a strategy which, if adopted by a population in a given environment, cannot be invaded by any alternative strategy that is initially rare.
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Evolutionary pressure
Any cause that reduces reproductive success in a portion of a population potentially exerts evolutionary pressure, selective pressure or selection pressure.
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Experiment
An experiment is a procedure carried out to support, refute, or validate a hypothesis.
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Fish
Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.
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Game theory
Game theory is "the study of mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent rational decision-makers".
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Gene-centered view of evolution
The gene-centered view of evolution, gene's eye view, gene selection theory, or selfish gene theory holds that adaptive evolution occurs through the differential survival of competing genes, increasing the allele frequency of those alleles whose phenotypic trait effects successfully promote their own propagation, with gene defined as "not just one single physical bit of DNA all replicas of a particular bit of DNA distributed throughout the world".
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Great tit
The great tit (Parus major) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae.
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Gull
Gulls or seagulls are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari.
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Handicap principle
The handicap principle is a hypothesis originally proposed in 1975 by Israeli biologist Amotz Zahavi to explain how evolution may lead to "honest" or reliable signaling between animals which have an obvious motivation to bluff or deceive each other.
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Hypothesis
A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon.
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Inclusive fitness
In evolutionary biology, inclusive fitness is one of two metrics of evolutionary success as defined by W. D. Hamilton in 1964.
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Injury
Injury, also known as physical trauma, is damage to the body caused by external force.
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Instinct
Instinct or innate behavior is the inherent inclination of a living organism towards a particular complex behavior.
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Kin selection
Kin selection is the evolutionary strategy that favours the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even at a cost to the organism's own survival and reproduction.
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Kittiwake
The kittiwakes (genus Rissa) are two closely related seabird species in the gull family Laridae, the black-legged kittiwake (R. tridactyla) and the red-legged kittiwake (R. brevirostris).
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Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist.
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Lanchester's laws
Lanchester's laws are mathematical formulae for calculating the relative strengths of a predator–prey pair, originally devised to analyse relative strengths of military forces.
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Learning
Learning is the process of acquiring new or modifying existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences.
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Loreal pit
The loreal pit is the deep depression, or fossa, in the loreal area on either side of the head in crotaline snakes (pitvipers).
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Mammal
Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.
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Meerkat
The meerkat or suricate (Suricata suricatta) is a small carnivoran belonging to the mongoose family (Herpestidae).
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Mobbing
Mobbing, as a sociological term, means bullying of an individual by a group, in any context, such as a family, peer group, school, workplace, neighborhood, community, or online.
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Mobbing (animal behavior)
Mobbing in animals is an antipredator adaptation in which individuals of prey species mob a predator by cooperatively attacking or harassing it, usually to protect their offspring.
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Natural selection
Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype.
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Nest
A nest is a structure built by certain animals to hold eggs, offspring, and, occasionally, the animal itself.
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Nikolaas Tinbergen
Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen (15 April 1907 – 21 December 1988) was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns in animals.
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Offspring
In biology, offspring are the young born of living organisms, produced either by a single organism or, in the case of sexual reproduction, two organisms.
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On Aggression
On Aggression (Das sogenannte Böse zur Naturgeschichte der Aggression, "So-called Evil: on the natural history of aggression") is a 1963 book by the ethologist Konrad Lorenz; it was translated into English in 1966.
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Owl
Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes about 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight.
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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Phainopepla
The phainopepla or northern phainopepla (Phainopepla nitens) is the most northerly representative of the mainly tropical Central American family Ptiliogonatidae, the silky flycatchers.
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Photography
Photography is the science, art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.
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Phylogenetic comparative methods
Phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs) use information on the historical relationships of lineages (phylogenies) to test evolutionary hypotheses.
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Pituophis
Pituophis is a genus of nonvenomous colubrid snakes commonly referred to as gopher snakes, pine snakes, and bull snakes, which are endemic to North America.
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Plumage
Plumage ("feather") refers both to the layer of feathers that cover a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers.
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Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a hunting animal) kills and eats its prey (the organism that is attacked).
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Rattlesnake
Rattlesnakes are a group of venomous snakes of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the subfamily Crotalinae (the pit vipers).
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Sexual selection
Sexual selection is a mode of natural selection where members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection), and compete with members of the same sex for access to members of the opposite sex (intrasexual selection).
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Signalling theory
Within evolutionary biology, signalling theory is a body of theoretical work examining communication between individuals, both within species and across species.
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Social behavior
Social behavior is behavior among two or more organisms, typically from the same species.
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Songbird
A songbird is a bird belonging to the clade Passeri of the perching birds (Passeriformes).
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Sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that typically propagates as an audible wave of pressure, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
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Stotting
Stotting (also called pronking or pronging) is a behavior of quadrupeds, particularly gazelles, in which they spring into the air, lifting all four feet off the ground simultaneously.
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Swallow
The swallows and martins, or Hirundinidae, are a family of passerine birds found around the world on all continents except Antarctica.
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W. D. Hamilton
William Donald Hamilton, FRS (1 August 1936 – 7 March 2000) was an English evolutionary biologist, widely recognised as one of the most significant evolutionary theorists of the 20th century.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobbing_(animal_behavior)
