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Animals & Behavior
chapter 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| embryo | a plant or animal at an early stage of development |
| consumer | an organism that eats other organisms or organic matter |
| innate behavior | an inherited behavior that does not depend on the environment or experience |
| learned behavior | a behavior that has been learned from experience |
| territory | an area that is occupied by one animal or a group of animals that do not allow other members of the species to enter |
| hibernation | a period of inactivity and lowered body temperature that some animals undergo in winter as a protection against cold weather and lack of food |
| estivation | a period of inactivity and lowered body temperature that some animals undergo in summer as a protection against hot weather and lack of food |
| circadian rhythm | a biological daily cycle |
| social behavior | the interaction of animals of the same species |
| communication | a transfer of a signal or message from one animal to another that results in some kind of response |
| pheromone | a substance that is released by the body and that causes another individual of the same species to react in a predictable way |
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