ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
INTRODUCTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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food (prey)
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avoiding predation
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seasonal change
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reproduction
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Detailed explanation-1: -‘An ADAPTATION is the way an animal responds to a stimulus in its environment. An animal’s NERVOUS system makes behaviors possible. Certain behaviors are influenced by GENES and can therefore be inherited.
Detailed explanation-2: -Famously described by zoologist Konrad Lorenz in the 1930s, imprinting occurs when an animal forms an attachment to the first thing it sees upon hatching. Lorenz discovered that newly hatched goslings would follow the first moving object they saw-often Lorenz himself.
Detailed explanation-3: -Another example of classical conditioning is called conditioned taste aversion. Animals may learn not to eat certain foods if they have ever become ill after eating them. This is an adaptive trait because it may help them avoid foods that are poisonous.