i need help, someone who knows about penguin's stimulus response.?

Question

can someone give an example of a stimulus a penguin responds to??

i need an answer ASAP

Answer 1

Cool question! Here are a couple of examples for you.

Displays: penguins are very visual animals, and display behaviour is an important stimulus in everyday life. For example, male adelie penguins perform "ecstatic" displays to lay claim to a territory around its nest and attract females. Also, juvenile penguins perform a begging display to encourage their parent to feed them.

Light cycles: these are an important stimulus for some penguin species. The penguins from temperate regions (little blue (aka fairy), jackass, megallanic and humboldt penguins) are nocturnal, meaning that the day/night cycle is a behavioural stimulus for them.

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Answer 2

Those penguins that nest in large colonies such as adelies and royals build their nests just outside pecking range of the nest next door. This means that adjacent birds leave each other alone. When, however, a bird leaves the nest to feed and returns to the nest, it has to go inside pecking range of other nests until it reaches a communal footpath. The automatic response of nesting birds is to peck anything within range so all birds moving to and from their nests have to run the gauntlet.

Humans walking through penguin colonies are subject to the same response. If you have to walk through a colony, wear gaiters to protect your ankles and lower legs. Penguins bite hard.