Use the Following Information to Answer the Next Few Questions

question 48

Multiple Choice

Use the following information to answer the next few questions.
Two populations of the highly ornamented white-crested sparrow species are spatially separated by a mountain range. Males from the two populations exhibit differing elaborate courtship displays. When a female appears, the males from the eastern population approach the female while bobbing their heads and spreading their wings, while the western population approaches a female by hopping and flapping their wings. Individuals from each population reared in isolation exhibited the same courtship displays as those in the wild.
-When presented with a model of a female, a male from the eastern population will perform the courtship display to completion, regardless of a eliciting a response from the "female." This is an example of

• A)a fixed action pattern.
• B)agonistic behaviour.
• C)territorial behaviour.
• D)social behaviour.
• E)associative learning.

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