ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
INTRODUCTION
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a skunk sprays a foul-smelling oil when a predator comes too close to it
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a male bird sings a specific song to attract female birds of the same species
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a beaver slows down its activities and remains in its home throughout the winter
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Caribou travel hundreds of kilometers before winter starts, and then return in the spring.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Migration is an innate behavior characterized as the long-range seasonal movement of animals; it is an evolved, adapted response to variation in resource availability.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sea turtles, newly hatched on a beach, will instinctively move toward the ocean. A marsupial climbs into its mother’s pouch upon being born. Other examples include animal fighting, animal courtship behaviour, internal escape functions, and the building of nests.
Detailed explanation-3: -Reflexes. Perhaps the simplest example of an innate behavior is a reflex action: an involuntary and rapid response to a stimulus, or cue. One example of a human reflex action is the knee-jerk reflex.
Detailed explanation-4: -BEHAVIORAL PLASTICITY. Animals can respond to environmental change in 3 key ways: disperse, adjust through phenotypic plasticity, or adapt through genetic changes ( Williams et al.