Animal Behaviors

Spiders spinning a web.

• Learned

• Innate

Birds flying away when they hear a noise.

• Learned

• Innate

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A lion teaches her cub how to hunt so it will be able to survive on its own.

• Learned

• Innate

A baby chimpanzee watches its mother use a twig to dig up termites. The baby chimpanzee will try doing this to find termites to eat.

• Learned

• Innate

Hatchling ducks recognize any organism they see after they hatch as mother.  This is what type of behavior?

• imprinting

• habituation

• classic conditioning

• distraction display

Which type of behavior is demonstrated when mature salmon travel long distances from the ocean to find the stream of their birth?

• estivation

• migration

• hibernation

• trial and error

These adaptations include migration, marking territory, flight or fight responses, etc.

• Physiological

• Behavioral

• Physical

What is imprinting?

• the behavior pattern used to identify mates

• instinct used for migration

• an irreversible form of learning

• color patterns on the egg shells

Behavior which benefits another organism and seems to give no gain the the benefactor is called:

• Habituaton

• taxis

• imprinting

• altruistic 

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Frogs hopping into the water to escape enemies or predators.

• Learned

• Innate