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Lecture 4 For Students

Chapter 2 focuses on a study of the nest building behavior of social weavers, specifically the White-browed Sparrow-weaver. The tutorial aims to assess skills in data collection, display, and conclusion drawing, with students required to create tables and figures based on photographic evidence of nest distributions. Participants must also formulate a title, hypothesis, and prediction for the study, culminating in a report submission.

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Lecture 4 For Students

Chapter 2 focuses on a study of the nest building behavior of social weavers, specifically the White-browed Sparrow-weaver. The tutorial aims to assess skills in data collection, display, and conclusion drawing, with students required to create tables and figures based on photographic evidence of nest distributions. Participants must also formulate a title, hypothesis, and prediction for the study, culminating in a report submission.

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Chapter 2

Weaver bird study (TUT)


Working groups: Pairs
Assessment
Table, graph and discussion must be completed
during this tutorial
The aim of this tutorial is to
determine whether you are
mastering the following skills:
Collection of data in a suitable table
Display data in a suitable figure
Drawing conclusions from the evidence
White-browed
Sparrow-weaver
Nests
Fact file
Social weavers build nests in thorn trees

Nests are untidy and badly made from grass stems

Birds like to build nests close together

The sun is hottest between 12:00 and 15:00 hr

New nests are built each Spring

Storms usually blow from the South West


A scientist decided to investigate the
nest building behaviour of social
weavers.
She decided to take close-up photographs
from above selected tress and to aid
counting, she divided the pictures into
sectors like the sectors of a clock.

She oriented her pictures so that 12 o’ clock


faced north.

Each nest shown in the four trees she


photographed, was represented with a black
box
Her photographs showed the
following nest distributions:
Discuss and plan each section of this report
with your partner
Make up a suitable title for this study(must include
the organism & its behaviour)
Write a suitable hypothesis for this study
Then write a prediction
Draw a suitable table to summarise the data from the
photographs of the nest distributions.
Decide on a suitable figure to summarise the results
in one way, then draw the figure (scatter, histogram
or a pie chart)
Write a discussion on the observed distribution of
weaver nests
Marks = 17
Hand in your reports!
The end of today’s session

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