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Multiple choice biology habits and habitats of some important animals behavioural science ethology animal behaviour

The study of animal behaviour under natural condition is called as

  1. Ethology

  2. Psychology

  3. Ornithology

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior under natural condition. It involves viewing animal behavior as an evolutionarily adaptive trait. The various behavior patterns are then classified and compared with those of other species, mostly with closely related species. Understanding ethology is important in animal training. Thus the correct answer is option A.

Multiple choice biology habits and habitats of some important animals behavioural science ethology animal behaviour

In which of the following type of behaviour, females choose the male they will mate with?

  1. Courtship

  2. Instinctive

  3. Seasonal

  4. Learned
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Courtship is a kind of behaviour in which an animal attempts such actions so as to attract the opposite sex for mating. This type of behaviour includes ritualized movements like dancing, vocalizations, mechanical sound production or display of beauty. 

Thus, the correct answer is 'Courtship.'

Multiple choice biology habits and habitats of some important animals behavioural science ethology animal behaviour

Which of these builds its hive on walls using mud?

  1. Wasp

  2. Spider

  3. Tailor bird

  4. Honey bee
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Mud Dauber or Mud wasp is the name applied to the number of species of family sphecidae or Crabronidae that built their nest from mud. It is built up by the female wasps by molding the mud by its mandibles. Mud daubers are generally not aggressive but may become hostile when threatened. 

So, the correct answer is 'Wasp'.

Multiple choice biology habits and habitats of some important animals behavioural science ethology animal behaviour

Mark the correct statement :

  1. The skull of baby chimpenzee is more like adult chimpenzee skull than adult human skull

  2. Firstly hominid features were revealed by homohabilis

  3. First human like being hominids are Australopithecus

  4. Domestication came before human settlements
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The skull of a baby chimpanzee is more similar to an adult chimpanzee's skull than an adult human's skull due to different growth trajectories and cranial development patterns.

Multiple choice biology habits and habitats of some important animals behavioural science ethology animal behaviour

The caudal fin of fish and pigeon is useful to ____________.

  1. increase the velocity.

  2. decrease the velocity.

  3. change direction.

  4. maintain balance.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The caudal fin of a fish acts as a rudder and propulsion tool, while the tail feathers of a pigeon act similarly during flight to change direction. Both structures are primarily adapted for steering rather than maintaining forward velocity or basic balance alone.

Multiple choice biology habits and habitats of some important animals behavioural science ethology animal behaviour

A) Heartwood is durable, dark and central in position 
B) Tyloses are balloon like structures of xylem parenchyma in vessel lumen 
C) Latewood is formed during spring season 

  1. All are correct

  2. Only A is correct

  3. Only B is correct

  4. Only C is incorrect
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Statement A is correct because heartwood is central, dark, and durable. Statement B is correct because tyloses are balloon-like ingrowths of xylem parenchyma into vessel lumens. Statement C is incorrect because latewood (autumn wood) is formed during the autumn or winter season, not the spring season (which produces earlywood).