A Lizard Learns to Avoid Predatory Birds After Being Attacked

question 64

Essay

A lizard learns to avoid predatory birds after being attacked and losing part of its tail to a bird.What is required for this avoidance behavior to be considered an adaptive trait?

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Definitions:

Equal Sample Sizes

A condition in statistical analysis where the number of observations in each group being compared is the same.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from the sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter with a certain degree of confidence.

Margin Of Error

An indication of the confidence in the results of a survey or experiment, showing how much the answers may deviate from the true value.

Sample Standard Deviations

A measure of the dispersion or variability of a set of data points around the mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.