AP BIOLOGY

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

INTRODUCTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This behavior happens when an animal forms an attachment to a place or an organism within a specific time period after birth or hatching.
A
Migration
B
Instinct
C
conditioning
D
imprinting
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Imprinting. Imprinting is a simple and highly specific type of learning that occurs at a particular age or life stage during the development of certain animals, such as ducks and geese. When ducklings hatch, they imprint on the first adult animal they see, typically their mother.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are four types of learned behavior: imprinting, trial and error, conditioning, and insight. Imprinting occurs when an animal forms a social attachment to another organism within a specific time period after birth or hatching.

Detailed explanation-3: -imprinting, in psychobiology, a form of learning in which a very young animal fixes its attention on the first object with which it has visual, auditory, or tactile experience and thereafter follows that object.

Detailed explanation-4: -Instinct, imprinting, conditioning, and imitation are the four types of animal behavior.

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