Innate releasing mechanism
In ethology, an innate releasing mechanism is a hypothetical innate system within an animal that responds to a stimulus in the environment to produce a pre-programmed stereotyped behavior.This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
See also:
- Konrad Lorenz
- Niko Tinbergen
- fixed action pattern
External links
- http://www.nervana.montana.edu/courses/bio480/netholec1.html