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| occurs many times and is usually seasonal, occurs in all vertebrate classes, and is a round trip. |
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-energy demands are monumental
-predators love exhausted prey
-expose individuals to chance climate events
-less time for reproduction
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-avoid harsh climates
-exploit favorable resources
-exploit facorable locations for reproduction |
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| methods of tracking migrations |
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-banding /marking
-direct observation
-radio tracking
-radar/satellite
-listening for calls |
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- shore birds
-seed eaters (some of them)
- insectivoress and aquatic life consumers
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| residents/non-migraters types |
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| flesh eaters and some seed eaters |
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| hatch/born in freshwater travel to an marine enviroment for development and back to freshwater to breed. (ex. Salmon) |
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| hatch/born in an marine enviroment tavel to a freshwater enviroment for development and back to the marine enviroment to breed.(ex. atlantic eel) |
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| go in a particular compass direction |
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| orient to a particular place from a variety of unfamilar locations |
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| a course introducing a new situation or environment |
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| leaving from one home to another, a one way trip,no seasonal return. |
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| movement away from the natal area |
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-high mortality
-increase locomotion
-more susceptle to lacal disease
-lack of familiarity |
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-avoidence of inbreeding
-avoid local crowding
-decrease competition
-locate uninhabited areas |
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| the area over which a group or individual travels during normal daily movement |
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| defense of an area around a high priority-limited resource from which competitors are excluded |
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| interspecific territoriality |
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| different species compete for the same limited resources |
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| ligth waves transmitted or reflected off of a surface that are detected by the eye |
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| use pigments and chromatophores |
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| absorb light waves and reflect others |
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| produce blacks browns, dull red, and dark purple |
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| fat based pigments that produce reds, yellows, and oranges. |
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| produces yellows and reds in some amphibians and fish (makes reds and yellows without help of food) |
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| produces red color of blood and the pinkish hue of humans |
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| small crystal like structures produce silver color (ex. fish) |
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| some wavelengths reflected well and some are not which creates a different color at a different angle. |
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| color is different in the offspring than the parents |
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| found in mamals and birds, prominant cold regions and the animals molt their coat to match their enviroment |
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| rearranging of pigments in days,hours, or seconds. |
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| used for predator avoidence and deterrence |
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| dark colors for absorbing heat or reflecting it |
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| makes spotting the animal harder for predators. |
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| breaks up the out line of the animal |
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| blotches to break up an animals outline |
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| coloration where the dorsal side is dark and the ventral side is light. |
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| the eye is disguised and there is sometimes a false eye |
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| an alternative means of crypsis is to resemble a common object |
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| warning coloration which signifies toxic and don't eat |
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| 2 species with similar color patterns |
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| mimicry of a unpleasent attribute like toxicitity. (ex. red spotted salamander and mud salamander) |
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| organisms are same in toxicity and color |
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| interaction between at least two individuals to transmit information that includes a singaler and a reciever |
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| communication that is effective at close range and are exaggerated, simplified and stereotyped |
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| ideal to communiate over long distrances |
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| use of communiation through scent glands, pheromones and urin/feces. |
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| communication that has a short range it is important in pre-copulatory and in bonding. |
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| communication that be used in turbid waters and used in navigation |
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| breaking down of an organism during its life cycle |
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| make lots of ospring and has high mortality rates |
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| few offspring and high survival rate |
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fast growth, early maruration, related to
R-selected |
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slow growth and late maturation
related to K-selected |
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| earlier birth but helpless and poorly developed |
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| late birth but well developed |
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