A cage containing male mosquitoes has a small earphone placed on top, through which the sound of a female mosquito is played. All the males immediately fly to the earphone and go through all of the steps of copulation. What is the best explanation for this behavior?
A) The males learn to associate the sound with females.
B) Copulation is a fixed action pattern, and the female flight sound is a sign stimulus that initiates it.
C) The sound from the earphone irritates the male mosquitoes, causing them to attempt to sting it.
D) The reproductive drive is so strong that when males are deprived of females, they will attempt to mate with anything that has even the slightest female characteristic.
E) Through classical conditioning, the male mosquitoes have associated the inappropriate stimulus from the earphone with the normal response of copulation.
A small sample of the great diversity of seed sizes and shapes.
Approximately 1 pound (0.45 kg) of ground elk meat formed into patties; note the relatively small fa
Male Asiatic Lion after a recent fight
The testes. In addition to producing sperm, the testes secrete the male sex hormones, primarily test
Sokol (Zhire) Zmajli, aged 80, changed her name from Zhire to the male name Sokol when she was ...
Physical distance versus recombination distance on human male and female chromosome 19