BIOL-4777EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lovebird, Comparative Psychology, Ethology
15 Feb 2018
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Ethology - europe: comparative psychology - usa. Fruit ies: vestigial wing - 2 copies vg, vg (recessive, yellow body. Kids and grandkids - no yellow body males bred. Lower wing beat/ second: courtship: wing beat = love song. Sexual selection - female selected normal male with higher frequency. Love birds (nest building behaviour: agapornis personata. Picks up material with beak: agapornis rosiecollis. Tucks materials in tail feathers: hybrid - tucked material in tail but it fell out, no bars found in the tail feathers, mice (maze running, parent generation total number of errors. Least 9 (bright mice), most 214 (dull mice: first generation, no big difference, second generation. Still overlap: seventh generation, no overlap, behaviour determined by genes. Comparative psychology: monarch butter ies, lay eggs on milkweed, instinctive, experiment - moved eggs from milkweed to a non toxic relative. Eggs hatched, caterpillar ate leaves, pupated and became adult.
