AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Behavioral responses depend on a number of factors, including an individual animal’s hearing sensitivity, tolerance to noise, exposure to the same noise in the past, behavior at the time of exposure, age, sex, and group composition.

Detailed explanation-2: -Noise pollution and wildlife Studies have shown that loud noise can cause caterpillars’ hearts to beat faster and bluebirds to have fewer chicks. Noise pollution makes it difficult for animals to use sound for navigation, finding food, mating, and avoiding predators, affecting many animals’ ability to survive.

Detailed explanation-3: -The environment, and especially the perinatal environment, can influence animal development, physiology and health and have long-term impacts on animal behaviour. Different species will be genetically motivated to behave in a certain way, depending on the environment they have evolved to survive in.

Detailed explanation-4: -Noise has been found to be a physical stressor on animals that can lead to behavioral, physiological, and anatomical responses. Noise-induced cortisol increases can cause immunosuppression, insulin resistance, cardiovascular diseases, catabolism (molecular decomposition), and intestinal problems (Spreng, 2000).

Detailed explanation-5: -Since many animals rely on their sense of sound for survival, they are particularly vulnerable to the problems that noise pollution (prolonged exposure to noise) can cause.