Animal Learning | Famous Experiments on Animals
Animal Learning Animal Learning is change in behaviour of animals resulting from experience. Unlike innate behaviour, learning is not controlled by genes. Learned behaviour can help animal become better suited to environment by learning and adapting to different conditions. There are six categories of learning. 1- Habituation Animal Learning An animal learns to ignore a repeated and irrelevant stimulus in Habituation. We see the buffaloes or cows in street city or squirrels in the city parks. These animals have learned by repeated harmless encounters that humans are no more dangerous to them and behave accordingly. It is highly adaptive. Experiment On Squirrels When one of them feels the threat, all others hear signal from it and run to the nearest refuge. However, if signal comes from an individual who has caused many false alarms, its signal will be ignored. 2-Imprinting Animal Learning Imprinting is a type of learning in which a very young animal fixes its atten...
