PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 40: Zebra Finch, Herring Gull, Cichlid
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Animal behaviour the responses of animals to specific internal and external stimuli. Learning illustrates how some behavioral patterns are acquired rather than inherited. No behaviours is determined entirely by genetics or entirely by environmental factors. Instinctive behaviour a genetically programmed response that appears in complete and functional form the first time it is used. Learned behaviour a response of an animal that is dependent on having a particular kind of experience during development. He took chicks from nests and reared them in individually sound proof cages. At about 200 days the chicks that heard the song could produce the song, Some heard the song at 10 50 days of age while others didn"t. Juvenile males in both groups started to vocalize in 150 days while the chick who didn"t hear the song could not produce that particular song. Thus white crowned sparrows are able to sing a song through learned behaviour.
