Here are the links to the two short videos for Part A (each is less than a minute long):
Schizocosa ocreata:
Schizocosa rovneri.
For Section B:
Japanese spider crab is the chosen species.
Its social environment: large group living
It has a sandy continental shelf and slope and a rocky continental shelf.
Part A:
In a brief essay fully respond to the following:
• to give you some practice with observation, what communication traits and behaviors did you notice in the video clip of Schizocosa ocreata and Schizocosa rovneri (describe them separately)?
• how did these compare to the information in the Uetz, et al. (2013) article?
• correctly use the terms plesiomorphic trait and apomorphic trait in your response
I understand that everyone has a different writing style, but these reflective essays should generally be about a paragraph long. If you need to write more to fully respond to the prompt, that’s fine. Clarity, substance, and a complete response are the goals.
Part B:
Now that you’ve chosen your species, you want to be sure that you’ll have sufficient material about its communication for a presentation.
This assignment is simple. You just need to identify at least two sensory modalities your species uses to communicate and at least two functions for communication. It’s fine if some signals use more than one modality – multimodality signals are one of the topics in the Week 4 module. Functions might include categories like mate identification, courtship, parent-offspring identification, territory identification, predator alerts, and more.
What I need from you this week is:
• the species you’ve selected
• two sensory modalities used by your species
• two discrete functions for communication in your species
Keep track of the sources you use to find this information, since identifying the sources you’ll use is the third and final part of your plan for the mid-semester project.
The species I’ve selected:
Two sensory modalities used by this species:
Two discrete functions for communication in this species:
