ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
INTRODUCTION
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Question
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Conditioning
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Imprinting
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Reflex
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Hibernation
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Detailed explanation-1: -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: -Imprinting refers to a critical period of time early in an animal’s life when it forms attachments and develops a concept of its own identity. Birds and mammals are born with a pre-programmed drive to imprint onto their mother.
Detailed explanation-3: -Imprinting and subsequent latchment is a primary stage of emotional and neurobehavioural development in which the infant recognises its mother through oral tactile memory for continuing evolutionary survival.
Detailed explanation-4: -Instinct, imprinting, conditioning, and imitation are the four types of animal behavior.