"Fixed action pattern" is an ethological term describing an instinctive behavioral sequence that is highly stereotyped and species-characteristic. Fixed...

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...

determinism, calling the behavior "sphexish". It is an example of a fixed action pattern, as described by H.J. Brockmann, where the sign stimulus is the sight...

more to his teacher, Oskar Heinroth, was the identification of fixed action patterns. Lorenz popularized these as instinctive responses that would occur...

polyneuropathy, a neurodegenerative, genetically transmitted disease Fixed action pattern, an instinctive animal behavioral sequence Filamentous anoxygenic...

quality that inhibits all unnecessary behaviors while generating a fixed action pattern for escape swimming. The type of escape response depends on the region...

important in the early development of ethology as an example of a fixed action pattern. More recently, the fish have become a favourite system for studying...

learned from the parents, it is also sometimes the product of a fixed action pattern, also known as an innate releasing mechanism (IRM). In these instances...

to: Monoamine releasing agent A type of stimulus that can elicit a fixed action pattern Acoustic release This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

widely accepted theory is that dousing in captive raccoons is a fixed action pattern from the dabbling behavior performed when foraging at shores for...