You Observe Two Distinct Behavioral Strategies Among Flocks of House

question 17

Multiple Choice

You observe two distinct behavioral strategies among flocks of house sparrows. In one strategy, individuals (producers) search for food patches. In the other strategy, individuals (scroungers) wait for producers to find food and then feed in the patches found by the producers. The relative frequency of these strategies differs in flocks, and you observe that the scroungers have high fitness (a high feeding rate) when they are rare in a flock and low fitness when they are common in a flock. This is an example of which of the following?

• A) Directional selection
• B) Disruptive selection
• C) Stabilizing selection
• D) Frequency-dependent selection
• E) Co-evolution

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