OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
DIVERSITY AMONG LIFE FORMS
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Question
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Why is a spider spinning a web an innate behavior?
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It learns how to spin the web from its mother.
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It learns how to spin a web through insight learning.
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It is born knowing how to spin a web.
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It learns how to spin a web through observational learning.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Instinct is a type of animal behaviour that need not be learned. A spider does not learn how to spin its web. It is born with the knowledge of web spinning. So, it is an instinctual behaviour.
Detailed explanation-2: -Spinning of web by spiders is an instinctual behaviour.
Detailed explanation-3: -Spiders are capable of learning in many different contexts, including prey capture, social interactions and predator avoidance. In recent years, there has been an upturn in the number of published studies of learning in spiders, with a particular interest in active hunters that do not build prey-capture webs.
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