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| Behavior | an activity or action, in response to changes in the environment, which helps an organism survive. |
| Conditioning | a learned behavior in which an animal learns that its response to a particular stimulus will lead to a good or bad result. |
| Courtship | an inherited behavioral process whereby adults of a species try to attract a potential mate. |
| Hibernation | an inherited behavior in which animals go into a state of greatly reduced body activity, used to conserve food stored in the body. |
| Imprinting | a learned behavior in which some newborn animals recognize and follow the first moving object they see. |
| Innate behaviors | animal behaviors that are passed from the parent to the offspring and are with the animal from birth. Also called inherited behaviors and instincts. |
| Insight | a learned behavior that is a form of reasoning that allows animals to use past experience to solve new problems. |
| Learned behaviors | animal behaviors that result from direct observations or experiences. |
| Migration | an inherited behavior that involves the movement of animals from one place to another in response to seasonal changes. |
| Trial and error | a learned behavior that is modified by experience. |
