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Innate behaviors are
those that are genetically determined. In contrast,
learned behaviors are those behaviors that
are modified in response to environmental experience.
The environment includes, but is not limited to,
variables such as climate (an animal learns to
seek shelter when it rains or snows); food items
(an animal learns what is good to eat, and what
is not); individuals of other species (learned
interspecific behaviors, including competition
and predatory, defensive, offensive, and fleeing
behaviors); and individuals of the same species
(learned intraspecific behaviors, including territoriality,
reproductive behaviors, operant and classical
conditioning, and insight learning). However,
most animal behaviors are a combination of innate
and learned behaviors.
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