AP BIOLOGY

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which is a learned behavior?
A
A crow utilizing traffic at a busy intersection to crack nuts
B
A goldfish being the color orange
C
A gecko lizard using its sticky feet to cling to a tree
D
a butterfly sucking pollen
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Behavior. American Crows are highly social birds, more often seen in groups than alone. In addition to roosting and foraging in numbers, crows often stay together in year-round family groups that consist of the breeding pair and offspring from the past two years. The whole family cooperates to raise young.

Detailed explanation-2: -1997). In Japan, Carrion Crows have been frequently observed to use automobiles as nutcrackers in the city of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Honshu (the largest main island) (Nihei, 1995).

Detailed explanation-3: -The crows exhibited a type of social learning mechanism called stimulus enhancement. After seeing another bird successfully snatch a piece of egg out of a certain door, a second individual would go for the same door and begin figuring out how to open it.

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