Please read the following example anecdote on the context surrounding a particul

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Please read the following example anecdote on the context surrounding a particular animal's behavior and describe your interpretation of the ultimate role that the behavior is playing for the animal in question the particular concept, theme or principle of animal behavior that the example illustrates and explain the process of reasoning that allowed you to deduce the previous 2 points from the example given. In wolves, which live in large packs, there is a definite social hierarchy among males in which only the senior, dominant males will have access to fertile females during the short breeding opportunities that are available. However, once he has mated with a female in estrus (who is fertile), they remain interlocked for up to a half hour due to his overly swollen genitalia that remains stuck in her reproductive tract and they must stay attached in that way until her eggs have been fertilized.

Explanation / Answer

a. The interlocking ensures that the egg is fertilzed, and reproduction is successful. It ensures the males that all the offspring are produced by him only and the traits are passed to his offspring

b. Increasing the fitness. The males, by ensuring that reproduction occurred, increase the fitness of the allele they pass down to the offspring

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