AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Learned behavior comes from watching other animals and from life experiences. By watching their mother, baby ducks learn how to avoid danger and to know what is good to eat. This is an example of learned behavior.

Detailed explanation-2: -For example, wolves and other predatory animals that hunt in packs learn hunting skills through observational learning. Young animals observe and copy the behavior of older animals when they hunt together. Another example of observational learning involves Japanese macaques (a species of monkey shown in Figure below).

Detailed explanation-3: -Habituation, imprinting, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and cognitive learning.

Detailed explanation-4: -That animals can learn seems to go without saying. The cat that runs to its food dish when it hears the sound of the cupboard opening; the rat that solves a maze in the laboratory; the bird that acquires the song of its species-these and many other common examples demonstrate that animals can learn.