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Wild Life Ecology Nptel Week 3 Assignment Answers (July-Dec 2025)
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Question 1. I observe a monkey take a tick out of another monkey’s head and eat it. In the social context, this behaviour would be called
a) tick hunting
b) auto grooming
c) allo grooming
d) foraging
Question 2. The scientific study of animal behaviour is called
a) behaviourism
b) ecology
c) ethology
d) prey-predator dynamics
Question 3. Hamilton’s rule can be stated as
a) rB < C
b) rB > C
c) rB = C
d) rB + C = 0
Question 4. Harmonious interactions occur where
a) at least one participant is benefited
b) at least one participant is unharmed
c) both participants are benefitted
d) both participants are unharmed
Question 5. The interaction between exotic shrubs and trees through the action of seed predators is an example of
a) infraspecific competition
b) apparent competition
c) disguised competition
d) harmonious competition
Question 6. An inventory of behaviours exhibited by an animal during a behaviour exercise is called
a) ecogram
b) ethogram
c) behaviourogram
d) animalogram
Question 7. Trampling of grass due to the movement of animals is an example of
a) mutualism
b) amensalism
c) commensalism
d) protocooperation
Question 8. I observe a bird take a tick out of another bird’s head and eat it. In the social context, this behaviour would be called
a) tick hunting
b) auto grooming
c) allo grooming
d) foraging
Question 9. Birds on giraffe are an example of
a) colony
b) commensalism
c) protocooperation
d) allelopathy
Question 10. Egrets with buffaloes are an example of
a) colony
b) commensalism
c) protocooperation
d) allelopathy
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