According to Your Book, Why Would a Mother Bird Feign

question 40

Multiple Choice

According to your book, why would a mother bird feign injury and move away from her nest when she has hatchlings?

• A) The behavior protects the young hatchlings.
• B) It is learned.
• C) It appears to be an inherited ability that emerged over many generations.
• D) Both a and c.

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Definitions:

Marginal Product

The additional output that is produced by using one more unit of a particular input, holding all other inputs constant.

Factor X

Factor X is a placeholder term used to denote an unknown or unspecified factor in an equation or scenario.

Production Function

A mathematical relationship expressing the maximum output that can be produced from a given set of inputs, showing the technological relationship between inputs and outputs.

Returns To Scale

The rate at which output increases as inputs are increased proportionally in the production process.