Animal Behavior

What is an innate behavior?

• A behavior that an animal must learn after being born.

• A behavior that an animal automatically does from birth.

• A behavior you should never participate in.

• A behavior that is copied by animals.

What is learned behavior?

• A behavior that animals automatically know how to do.

• A behavior that everyone does.

• A behavior that an animal discovers through trial and error and watching others.

• A behavior animals always avoid.

Some behaviors are programmed into an animal and they automatically know how to do them when they are born. This is called an ________________.

• learned behavior

• generation

• acquired

• instinct

Which word is a synonym for instinct?

• Learned behavior

• innate behavior

• acquired behavior

• Essential behavior

Instincts are behaviors are fully developed from the animal's ______________.

• birth

• death

• first birthday

Which of the following is an example of animal instinct?

• A chimpanzee using a blade of grass as a eating tool.

• A sea turtle hatching digs its way out of its buried hatchery.

• A honeybee learns to associate color with food.

• A dog shakes his paw with a human.

Learned behaviors come from ___________________.

Learned behaviors must be __________________.

• automatic

• first

• taught

Animals can adapt and change and _______________ new behaviors throughout their life.

• instinct

• hatch

• generation

• learn

Honeybees were able to learn that scientists put sugar water in a yellow dish. They started going to the yellow dish each time. This is an example of_______________.

• instinct

• innate behavior

• learned behavior

• complex havior