Animal Behavior

All animal behaviors are responses to

• environment

• intervention

• stimuli

• functions

Learned behavior in animals is the process

• that is learned

• is a characteristic

• that leads to changes in behavior

• is an instinct

The types of behavior are are instincts and learned behavior.

• true

• false

When a hungry dog sees or smells food, it produces saliva. Dogs do not usually salivate in response to other such as the sound of a ringing bell.

(a)  

Do you think a spider would be able to survive without the instinct to spin a web? Why or Why not?

An organisms reaction to a stimulus is called a

• reaction

• response

• an external action

• an internal action

Now I know that animal behaviors are

(a)  

Where can stimuli come from?

• inside the animal

• outside the animal

• from a response in ther nervous system

• from the need to survive