Dominance, Sexual Behavior, and Territoriality Can All Be Related in Song

question 58

Multiple Choice

Dominance, sexual behavior, and territoriality can all be related in song birds. This is because:

• A) the establishment of a territory by singing tends to reduce conflict.
• B) the establishment of a territory encourages use of the entire habitat and regulates the size of the breeding area.
• C) competing species are eliminated.
• D) only individuals that successfully defend their territory can mate.
• E) females sing but males do not.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.

Variance

A measure of the spread between numbers in a dataset, expressing how much the numbers differ from the average value.

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is true, used as a threshold to gauge the strength of the evidence against the null hypothesis.

Standard Deviation

Measures the amount of variance or dispersion of a set of values; a low standard deviation indicates that the values are close to the mean.