"hand-cuffs" Correct Answers keep walking sticks together for
a couple day
A Creche Correct Answers nursery
advantages of seed dispersal Correct Answers 1. Avulse
crowding and competition
2. Prevents spreading of disease or parasites
2. Prevents in breeding
4. Saves some of the offspring from being eaten
Altricial birds: Correct Answers nest defence intensity peaks
just before young fledge (leaves nest)
Analogous to penis for a plant Correct Answers pollen grains
anemochory Correct Answers wind dispersal
anemophily Correct Answers wind pollination
animals equivalent to seed dispersal Correct Answers parental
care
Anti-aphrodisiacs Correct Answers after a wile male fruit fly
mates with a female he transfers a pheromone from a gland
under his cuticle to the female's cuticle that makes her
unattractive
-male garter snakes also do this
, Asynchronous hatching Correct Answers -many lessen feeding
stress on parents
-reduce odds of loosing entire brood
-Ensure survival of some you in times of food stress
atrial birds Correct Answers just before fledging (leaving nest)
atricial Correct Answers born at an early stage of development
EX: black bears
Ballistic Ejection Correct Answers the pods shrink and the
seeds are squeezed out on by on spring ephemerals.
Also seen with Orange Jewelweed:
traps are tense when the seed matures and when touches the
straps act as a catapult and seeds are thrown metres away.
Ballistic Ejection Correct Answers when seeds are shiot out
from a plant
biparental care Correct Answers both parents provide care for
offspring
Boom or Bust Strategy Correct Answers many plants can abort
seeds if conditions are poor.
Brood Amalgamation/Creching Correct Answers The taking of
of other babies by a mother that are not hers. May allow for
safety in numbers, both for donor's and recipient's young
Brood patches Correct Answers featherless heating pads