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Ethograms allow a researcher to calculate which of the following?

The study of carbon cycling though the environment is an example of which of the following?

Ethograms are most often associated with which of the following means of studying animal behavior?

In the phylogeny above, presence of a fuzzy tail is a(n) _____________ trait and presence of whiskers is a(n) _____________  trait, for the clade that includes D & E.

Are you convinced that herbicides are affecting egg development in frogs?

You are conducting a study to find out whether the giraffes that inhabit the Serengeti Park in Africa are increasing or decreasing in abundance.  What scale of ecology is your research?

In the scale-eating cichlid, two jaw morphologies exist.  Left-jawed morphs are more successful when they are rare and right-jawed morphs are abundant, and right-jawed morphs are more successful when they are rare and left-jawed morphs are abundant.  Thus changes in the proportion of each morph in the population is constantly changing, and at some proportion, both morphs are equally successful.   The existence of two jaw morphologies in the scale-eating cichlid is an example of 

Which of the following is an example of a question about the proximate cause of a behavior?

Nearly all owls hunt at night and many can capture prey in total darkness. Check the example of a question about the ultimate cause of night hunting in owls. 

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