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| small semelparous mammal, the males of which die immediately after mating |
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| passed from animals to humans |
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| fairly recent, with little knowledge of it beforehand |
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| presence of microbiotic agents that can be transmitted |
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| brain disease causing disorientation and/or aggressiveness |
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| guts melt from inside out |
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| place where organisms normally live/grow |
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| Factors in simpler organism choice of habitat... |
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-chemical cues
-temperature
-light
-food |
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| Factors in higher organism choice of habitat... |
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-complex decisions
-cues using senses
-complex habitats |
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| movement of individuals away from each other |
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| mass exodus of one species |
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| movement of animals away from birthplace |
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| common in cervids, name says it all |
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| also present in cervids and other ruminants, transmitted by gnats |
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| lesions on chest wall and lungs |
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| ultimate disease carriers |
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| fungus that rouses bats from hibernation and starves them |
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| transmitted by rodents, transmitted by rodent litter |
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| flulike symptoms, "Rabbit Fever", tickbourne |
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| growths common in cervids, transmitted by biting flies and contact with open sores |
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| keratinous growths on body, common in rabbits |
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| mites the affect hair follicles and cause itching and hair loss |
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| parasite that can travel to brain, spine, eyes, and other organs |
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| Random dispersal (plants) |
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| Uniform dispersal (nesting penguins) |
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-mobile digits
-enlarged brain
-binocular, stereoscopic, colour vision
-slow reproductive rate, long lived
-rotating forearm |
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Prosimeons
(lorises, lemurs) |
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Simeons
(tarsiers, monkeys, apes, humans) |
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-hunting
-digging
-fingernails |
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| growth to a certain size/ maturity triggers behaviour |
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-sheath
-quick
-bone inside |
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-bone
-covered in velvet
-shed
-grow new pair yearly
-honest signal |
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armour
spines
chemicals
jumping
mid distance |
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strength
long distance running
sheer size |
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| area where group of males display for females |
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safety in numbers
food
territory
division of labour
enriching |
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-intraspecific competition
-more disease & parasites
-more conspicuous |
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| example of active defense |
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| oxen form ring around young |
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| dilution effect (swamping) |
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| fitness of individual that includes reproductive fitness of relatives and offspring |
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-expects return
-not based on relatedness
-form of mutualism
-vampire bats |
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| coefficient of relatedness (r) |
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probability of shared genetics with common relatives
r=.5^(# of genetic leaps) |
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allele for altruistic behaviour
more likely to spread when cost is low
(Bxr-C>0) |
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| Dscription of Belding's Ground Squirrel behaviour |
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| individuals more likely to sound alarm calls the more closely related the nearby animals were |
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-hierarchy of colonial groups
-queen, with few other reproductive females |
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| hyena behaviour and hierarchy |
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-based on size of female pseudopenis and her testosterone levels
-social status
-hormonal fluctuations |
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-2 chambered auditory bullae
-short rostrum, less teeth
-retractable claws
-arboreal or semi-arboreal |
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-carnassial dentition
-C-shaped mandibular fossa
-baculum
-anal sacs
-pack behaviour when prey is large |
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| significance of C-shaped mandibular fossa in carnivora |
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| strictly vertical motion, clamp down on prey |
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| common ancestor of carnivora |
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-1 chamber a.b.
-non-retractile claws
-opportunistic feeders
-terrestrial/aquatic |
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Phocidae
-rear-facing hind limbs
-earless seals
-not furry (blubber) |
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Otariidae
-underfur
-eared seals
-forward-facing hind legs |
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