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Nesting behavior is an instinct in animals during reproduction where they prepare a place with optimal conditions to nurture their offspring. [1] The nesting place provides protection against predators and competitors that mean to exploit or kill offspring. [ 2 ]
The nests are not built using instinct but through behavioural patterns which are learned by the young from their parents or clan. Nest building is habitual behaviour, [14] and nest-counts and faecal analysis at each nest site can be used to estimate hominid ape population counts and composition. [15]
Nesting strategies can be plastic, for instance the wasp Parischnogaster mellyi will significant vary its nest construction based on environmental conditions, and the wasp Mischocyttarus mexicanus is known to nest in groups or alone depending on the distribution of potential nest sites in the area.
Building or having a nest. Nesting instinct, an instinct in pregnant animals to prepare a home for offspring; Nesting (child custody), a child custody arrangement in which the children stay in the home; Nesting (computing), a concept of information organized recursively; Nesting (process), a process of efficiently manufacturing parts from flat ...
Instinct is the inherent inclination of a living organism towards a particular complex behaviour, containing innate (inborn) elements. The simplest example of an instinctive behaviour is a fixed action pattern (FAP), in which a very short to medium length sequence of actions, without variation, are carried out in response to a corresponding ...
Webster's Dictionary defines instinct as "A largely inheritable and unalterable tendency of an organism to make a complex and specific response to environmental stimuli without involving reason". [13] This covers fixed action patterns like beak movements of bird chicks, [14] and the waggle dance of honeybees. [15]
Philopatry is the tendency of an organism to stay in or habitually return to a particular area. [1] The causes of philopatry are numerous, but natal philopatry, where animals return to their birthplace to breed, may be the most common. [2]
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