innate behaviour


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innate behaviour

any behaviour that is exhibited by animals reared in isolation and which appears to be inherited, and thus instinctive, in some interpretations of the meaning of this word. Innate behaviour develops independently of any experience of the behaviour in other animals. See INSTINCT, IMPRINTING.
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As per this status, the animals should be healthy, comfortable, well- nourished, safe, able to express innate behaviour without pain, fear and distress.
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Unfortunately, this innate behaviour is the very practice that spreads the rare disease, which could lead to their extinction.
Devils in distress
In a social climate where the media hypes new genetic discoveries concerning our behaviour just about every day, and books such as Men are from Mars, Women are From Venus by pseudo-psychologist John Gray top bestseller lists for months, the popular reinforcement of genetic or innate behaviour patterns is continually reinforced.
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Avoiding carbon dioxide is an innate behaviour and should therefore be generated outside the mushroom body in the fly's brain: previously, the nerve cells in the mushroom body were linked only with learning and behaviour patterns that are based on learned associations.
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The authors write that understanding the molecular basis of predator odour recognition by rodents will provide crucial tools to study the neural circuitry associated with innate behaviour.
How mice use sense of smell to detect, evade predators

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