The following article discusses how birds can associate alarm calls with potential danger. Read the article and write a paper about alarm signals. Your paper should focus on the following topics:
1) explaining the differences between learned versus innate/instinctive responses to alarm calls
2) the potential benefit(s) of the ability to associate novel calls with danger in regard to the fitness of the receiving animal and why this ability would evolve via natural selection
3) how the ability to associate novel calls with danger could be inherited over generations to be selected for by natural selection
(Rubric)
-Difference between learned and innate responses to alarm calls
-Benefits of associating novel calls with danger
-Why would ability to associate novel calls with danger evolve?
-How the ability to associate novel calls with danger could be inherited over generations to be selected for by natural selection?
-Accuracy of information and relation of article to class topics?
