Benefits of Social Behavior by Ethan Ophir [STUDENT]

What is an innate behavior?

ethan_226164 — 2018-04-19 14:31:04 UTC

Innate behaviors are behaviors that all members of a species show when they are near the same stimulus. These are important because all members of a species use this to go through many basic life functions. The innate behaviors that organisms show are use in order to survive and reproduce such as the ability to hunt for food and make a nest for a bird. Since they are passed from generation to generation, they can help a population grow and survive over time.

Examples of innate behaviors:

ethan_226164 — 2018-04-19 14:38:32 UTC

How has this behavior become an adaption?

ethan_226164 — 2018-04-19 14:40:57 UTC

This behavior has become an adaptation because the organisms that exhibited these behaviors from an early age had a distinct survival advantage. This became an adaption when the organisms with the instincts to survive passed down the traits from generation to generation, causing the adaption to spread.

ethan_226164 — 2018-04-19 14:55:27 UTC

This video exemplifies the fact that innate behaviors is in all species. The example used here is the instinct that apes and humans share to know who they are.

ethan_226164 — 2018-04-19 15:00:41 UTC

A bird hatching out of an egg or building a nest is innate behavior, for they do it by instinct.

ethan_226164 — 2018-04-19 15:02:25 UTC

Baby turtles going out to sea and returning to lay eggs are innate behaviors that are exhibited in many turtle species.

Personal Statement

ethan_226164 — 2018-04-19 15:05:27 UTC

Overall, social behavior is beneficial to almost any species that uses it. It supports the idea of working together in order to survive. Although some organisms may be at risk, they do it for the benefit of the entire community, for many of these behaviors are innate. They are instinctual traits that allow the greater good to survive.

ethan_226164 — 2018-04-19 15:08:41 UTC

The ability to hibernate is another innate behavior that allows many species to survive for the long and harsh winter.

ethan_226164 — 2018-04-19 15:14:12 UTC

Mothers caring for their young shows innate behaviors, for they are using their maternal instincts.

References

ethan_226164 — 2018-04-19 15:15:47 UTC

"5 Mothers Who Only Want 1 Thing This Mother's Day." (2017, May 12). Retrieved from <http://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/5-mothers-who-want-1-thing-on-mothers-day.php>.
Ewing, J. (n.d.). Retrieved from <http://www.haciendabaru.com/giving-sea-turtles-chance/>.
"Innate Behavior." (n.d.). Retrieved from <http://annalisekurowskizoology.weebly.com/innate-behavior.html>.
"Innate Behavior." (n.d.). Retrieved from <https://www.ck12.org/biology/innate-behavior/lesson/Innate-Behavior-of-Animals-BIO/>.
"Self-Recognition in Apes." (2008, March 13). Retrieved from <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJFo3trMuD8>.
Yin, S. (2017, March 24). "Waking From Hibernation, the Hard Work of Spring Bears. Retrieved from <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/science/hibernation-spring-bears-bees-bats-arctic-squirrels.html>.