Question

Anole lizards mainly eat small insects. Suppose an anole lizard saw a bright red butterfly and ate it, but was ill afterwards. For the rest of its life, the anole lizard refused to eat red butterflies even when it was hungry. What type of behavior is the anole lizard exhibiting when it avoids hunting red butterflies? A. social behavior B. innate behavior C. territorial behavior D. learned behavior

Answer 1

D It is a learned behavior that the lizard developed based on experience.

Answer 2

The answer is D. learned behavior.

A change in behavior of an organism takes place due an experience is called learning. Animals learn behavior in many ways. On such way is given the question that anole lizard ate bright red butterfly instead small insects which are its normal food and became ill. Anole lizard learned through experience that bright red insects are not its food. Thus, a learned behavior is one that an organism develops by encountering experience.