i dont know anything
2007-02-01 00:48:18 · 7 answers · asked by deno 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Animals use some fixed action patterns to one degree or another, depending on complexity. It is wrong to always oppose instinct to learning. There are basic instincts, such as sucking in human infants, that are sans learning. All advanced mammals have these. The instinct to chase is a fixed action pattern in canids, but what and when to chase are learned by observational and imitative learning. You, for instance, have a natural inclination to " balance ", but you have to learn to ride a bike; then that learning is set farther back, in another section of the brain, commonly called, " muscle memory ". So, as you can see, instinct and learning are not opposed, but intertwined.
2007-02-01 06:36:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Instincts are stimulus responses that have been proven in the past to keep that animal alive. Like a baby gazelle’s instinct to get up off the ground and walk around minutes after birth keeps it from being picked off as easy prey by any near by predators. If it didn’t have that instinct, its chances for survival would be drastically reduced. You have an instinct to pull your hand away from a hot surface. It doesn’t require thought, you just do it. Otherwise you would get a worse burn from touching a hot surface by accident. Instincts can be overridden, but it takes willpower. Hope that helps!
2007-02-01 00:59:52 · answer #2 · answered by Chick in Florida 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Animals use instincts basically to survive. Instincts are behaviors that are not learned. Insticts can be triggered by internal or external stimuli (anything in the environment to which an animal reacts).
An example of an instinct triggered by an internal stimulus is when a caterpillar prepares its cocoon. Chemicals inside its body needed to make a cocoon is produced and the caterpillar starts to undergo metamorphosis, or make its cocoon.
An example of an instinct triggered by an external stimulus is when a hen shields her chicks when in danger. When other animals or humans that gets near and she sees as a threat, she will immediately hide her chicks under her wings and make sounds to scare the threat away.
2007-02-01 01:06:41 · answer #3 · answered by Pinoy Sophomore 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Animals use mostly instincs to get by in their daily lives.
2007-02-01 01:01:23 · answer #4 · answered by gabY gRAPELInA 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
just like a humans, people
you know when you're wright or wrong...you also use insticts, there isn't explaination
2007-02-01 01:12:17 · answer #5 · answered by Melinda Gordon <3 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Evolution, that's what worked
2007-02-01 01:24:54 · answer #6 · answered by hot carl sagan: ninja for hire 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because they can't use logic
2007-02-01 01:45:10 · answer #7 · answered by Justin G 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋