Vacuum activity

Vacuum activity

Vacuum activities are fixed actions of animals, which are triggered by inherited behavior patterns, although the usual key stimulus is absent. The term was first established by the ethologist Konrad Lorenz in the 1930s after observations of a hand-raised starling.


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