AP BIOLOGY

ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY

NERVOUS SYSTEM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A whale splashing the audience at a marine show is demonstrating a
A
learned behavior
B
innate behavior
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In the marine world, animal training has primarily been limited to marine mammals, though scientists have attempted to train other marine animals with limited success. including dolphins, seals, sea lions, walruses, and sea otters.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1955, the Brelands wrote the first operant training manual for dolphins. It included general principles such as stimulus, bridging, shaping, differentiation, extinction, props, and schedules of reinforcement.

Detailed explanation-3: -Historically, whalers reported that certain species of whales float after death (right and sperm whales) while most others sink. Right whales have also been shown to normally need to actively swim down until lung collapse depth, where they can then glide to deeper depths (Nowacek et al., 2001).

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