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| Louisiana loses more than ___ of wetlands each year |
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| Louisiana is currently loosing ___ of land every hour |
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| commercial fishing is more than ___ dollars of the state's annual economy |
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| 70%; shrimp, oysters and blue crabs |
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| More than ___ of the commercial fishing in La comes from wetland species such as ___, ___, and ___ |
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| La sells more than ___ fishing licenses and ___ hunting licenses every year |
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| ___ was the second hottest year in history |
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| sea level has already risen about ___ this century |
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| the science of ___ studies how behavior develops, evolves, and helps survival and reproduction |
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| ___ is what an animal does and how it does it |
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| proximate "how" questions or ultimate "why" questions |
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| Animal behavior questions can be asked in two ways: ___ and ___ |
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| proximate, or "how" questions |
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| ___ focus on the stimuli that trigger a behavior and the physiological mechanisms behind it |
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| ultimate, or "why" questions |
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| ___ address the evolutionary significance of a behavior |
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| ___ is the scientific study of animal behavior, particularly in natural environments |
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| ___ is a behavioral process |
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| fixed action pattern (FAP) |
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| One type of behavior, a ___ is a sequence of innate behaviors that is unchangeable. once begun, it is usually carried to completion |
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| A FAP is triggered by an external sensory stimulus, known as a ___. |
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| In male stickleback fish, the ___ for attack behavior is the red underside of an intruder. |
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| ___ is a type of behavior that includes both learned and innate components and is generally irreversible |
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| Imprinting has a ___: a limited phase that is the only time when it can be learned. |
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| ___, the father of modern ethology showed that when baby geese spent the first few hours of their life with him, they imprinted on him as their parent. |
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| Conservation biologists have taken advantage of imprinting in a program to save the ___ from extinction |
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| Behavior that is automatic is called ___ behavior and is under strong genetic influence. |
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| many features of bird migration have been found to be ___. |
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| a ___ is a change in activity in response to a stimulus |
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| Pill bugs (doodle bugs); kinesis |
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| ___ become more active in dry areas and less active in humid ones, and example of ___. |
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| ___ is automatic movement toward or away from a stimulus |
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| Many fish exhibit ___ automatically swimming in an upstream direction, the direction from which food comes. |
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| ___ is the reception of and response to signals |
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| A ___ is a behavior that causes a change in another animal's behavior |
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