mimicry - 2024 ARGOS - Buzzpoints App

Question

An origin story for the presence of a flute song in the lyrebird’s whistle song attributes it to this behavior. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this behavior, whose vocal form is performed by parrots and mockingbirds. A harmless species evolves to imitate warning signs in the Batesian form of this behavior.

ANSWER: mimicry [accept vocal mimicry; accept Batesian mimicry]

[10m] Male lyrebirds mimic the calls of this behavior in their D song during copulation to initiate a freeze response in the female. In this behavior, a group of birds cooperatively attack or harass a predator, usually to protect their offspring.

ANSWER: mobbing [accept mobbing calls]

[10h] This nucleus in the brain of songbirds is necessary for the learning and production of bird song. This part of the bird brain is connected to both the robust nucleus of the arcopallium and the anterior forebrain pathway.

ANSWER: HVC [accept high vocal center; accept hyperstriatum ventrale, pars caudalis; prompt on vocal control nucleus]

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Summary


2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis	03/22/2025	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago	11/23/2024	Y	6	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College	12/14/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia	11/23/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster	11/17/2024	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford	02/22/2025	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS Online	03/22/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


Banned from ARGOS	Hu up Jinning they Tao	10	0	10
Pahkin' the Ahgo	Import Pandas	10	10	20
"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro	\|madam\|	10	0	10
BHSU ReFantazio	Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?	10	0	10
Clown Squad	That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days	10	0	10
WashU	Music to Help You Stop Smoking	10	0	10
Northeast by Northwestern	hawk two of	10	0	10
Notre Dame	Clown Senpais	10	0	10
BHSU Rebirth	The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)	10	0	10
Cambridge	Defying Suavity	10	0	10
Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz	Cien Años de Quizboledad	10	10	20
Simple Vibes	Limp Francekit	10	0	10
NJ TRANSit (and anwen	12 Litres of Green Tea	10	0	10
Walston et. al.	jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club	10	0	10
just one more half-dot bro	Cope is the thing with feathers	10	10	20
Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha	I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	10	0	10
Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers	Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country	10	0	10
You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere	10	0	10
Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut	Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken	10	0	10
The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange	as rational as the square root of two power bottoms	10	10	20
Cry of the Common Loon	A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs	10	0	10
Stanford+	Berkeley	10	0	10
Where are the ACF Nationals recordings?	number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku	10	10	20
Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms	CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!	10	10	20
I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire	Thompson et al.	10	0	10
throw away your cards, rally in the streets	UBC	10	10	20