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#Question id: 3458

Which of the following examples reflects the concept of optimal foraging?

#Section 2: Evolution

  1. During foraging, a mule deer will consume food as soon as it finds it, regardless of the location.

  2. A cheetah will continue a chase for prey, regardless of how long the chase lasts or how much energy is consumed.

  3. A moose spends more time looking for food when the food is high quality than when the food is low quality.

  4. If an animal is hungry it will consume food as soon as it is found, regardless of the food quality or the risk.

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#Question id: 8851

#Section 2: Evolution

Why is territoriality an adaptive behavior for songbirds maintaining populations at or near their carrying capacity?
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#Question id: 3429

#Section 2: Evolution

Which of the following is a behavioral pattern that results from a proximate cause?
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#Question id: 4721

#Section 2: Evolution

PKU, results from a recessive allele; persons homozygous for this allele, if untreated, exhibit mental retardation, blue eyes, and light skin color. This character categorized as
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#Question id: 11263

#Section 1: Ecology

Studies of parasitism of kentucky warblers by brown-headed cowbirds have shown that fragmentation has ____________the rate of parasitism because of ____________ edge habitat and ____________ habitat quality.
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#Question id: 10645

#Section 1: Ecology

The logistic equation above is used to describe the rate of change of a population, N, with time, t, where r is the intrinsic rate of increase and K is the carrying capacity. dn/dt is isoclines when