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BIOL 111 Dominance Hierarchies and Mating Behavior Discussion

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Kayla Rodriguez
BIOL Lab 111
November 9,2016
Dominance Hierarchies & Mating Behavior
Aggression in Males
Introduction
In all hierarchies, there is always one who dominates amongst the others. In animals, almost
always the males are the dominant ones. With dominants comes aggression, there are many reasons
as to why an animal can be aggressive such as defending their young, or fighting for food, or
fighting one another for a mate.(paragraph two) So, in our lab we wanted to test on male crickets
what makes them want to become dominant. What incentive wants to make them the dominant.
Our hypothesis was in the presents of resources male crickets will tend to establish. Our predicted
results were that males will be more likely to establish more dominance when a female is around
rather than food. Our hypothesis led us to these predicted results because we wanted to see what
makes crickets want to be dominant.
Methods
How we set up the experiment is we had 4 trials. The first trial was with 2 males and 1
female to see if one of the males would become more dominant than the other. We did another
trial just like the first but exchanged females to see if the males preferred a type of female. The
other two experiments we used food instead of a female to see if one of the males established
dominance. Each trial was 7 minutes long and for each minute we counted the number of times
the males would interact with each other. After that we would get the average amount of the times
they interacted and put it in a bar graph to compare each trials result. The independent variable of
the experiment was the type of resource which was the females and the apple. The dependent
variable was the level of aggression in the males/ if one becomes more dominant than the other
male.

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Kayla Rodriguez BIOL Lab 111 November 9,2016 Dominance Hierarchies & Mating Behavior Aggression in Males Introduction In all hierarchies, there is always one who dominates amongst the others. In animals, almost always the males are the dominant ones. With dominants comes aggression, there are many reasons as to why an animal can be aggressive such as defending their young, or fighting for food, or fighting one another for a mate.(paragraph two) So, in our lab we wanted to test on male crickets what makes them want to become dominant. What incentive wants to make them the dominant. Our hypothe ...
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