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innate behavior is behavior that is determined by the "hard-wiring" of the nervous system. It is usually inflexible, a given stimulus triggering a given response. A salamander raised away from water until long after its siblings begin swimming successfully will swim every bit as well as they the very first time it is placed in the water. Clearly this rather elaborate response is "built in" in the species and not something that must be acquired by practice. Fixed action patters are an instinctive behavioral sequence that is indivisible and runs to completion.Fixed action patterns are invariant and are produced by a neural network known as the innate releasing mechanism in response to an external sensory stimulus known as a sign stimulus orreleaser(a signal from one individual to anothertays the same

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Q: What is the difference between innate behavior and fixed action patterns?
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