ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
INTRODUCTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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imprinting
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conditioning
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trial and error
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insight
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: An example of imprinting is young ducklings following their mother, due to exposure to the mother duck during a critical period of their growth. A is the correct answer.
Detailed explanation-2: -A young duckling during the first few hours of life sees the image of its mother and siblings. This gets imprinted in the brain of the duckling and follows them which is essential for its survival.
Detailed explanation-3: -Innate behavior comes from an animal’s heredity. An animal’s instincts are examples of its innate behavior. For example, migrating birds use innate behavior to know when to begin their migration and the route that they should follow. Learned behavior comes from watching other animals and from life experiences.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.