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To fully appreciate this tutorial, you should be familiar with the concepts of:
• Adaptive behavior
• Innate behavior
• Learned behavior

After this tutorial, you will be able to describe:
• Various interspecific animal behaviors
• Various intraspecific animal behaviors
• Examples of social behaviors

50 What are the mechanisms underlying some animal behaviors?
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Habituation and imprinting
Classical and operant conditioning
Biological rhythms
Migration
Mating systems
Foraging behavior and territoriality
Summary

 

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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