ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
INTRODUCTION
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Question
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Identify the type of learning illustrated:Ewes will adopt and nurse a lamb shortly after they give birth to their own lamb but will butt and reject a foreign lamb introduced a day or two later.
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imprinting
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operant conditioning
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cognition
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spatial learning
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social learning
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Before class, write this list of ten types on animal behaviors on the board or on an overhead for projection: Sexual, Maternal, Communicative, Social, Feeding, Eliminative, Shelter seeking, Investigative, Allelomimetic and Maladaptive.
Detailed explanation-2: -What are the 4 types of animal behavior? Instinct, imprinting, conditioning, and imitation are the four types of animal behavior.
Detailed explanation-3: -All animals have innate and learned behaviors. Learned behavior develops during an animal’s lifetime. Animals with more complex brains exhibit more behaviors that are the result of learning. However, the behavior of insects, spiders, and other arthropods is mostly instinctive behavior.
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