Question

What is instinct?
How do the birds know how to make a nest?
Is it something that they learn from other birds like their parents, or is it something else?

Answer 1

Birds know how nest because of their instincts.

Instinct ::an inborn pattern of behavior that is characteristic of a species and is often a response to specific environmental stimuli.

Answer 2

Thanks, but how that inborn pattern has been formed?

Answer 3

*Birds know how to build nest because of their instincts.

Instinct is like "knowledge which gets baked into the structure of the brain by many generations of evolution", while what we normally call learning is "knowledge acquired through interaction with the environment by a single organism." They're both knowledge, but the arise by different mechanisms.

So the inborn pattern is form over timed by generations of evolution.

Answer 4

*time

Answer 5

I'll give you an article about instincts to help you get a better understanding of it. :)

Answer 6

An inherited tendency of an organism to behave in a certain way, usually in reaction to its environment and for the purpose of fulfilling a specific need. The development and performance of instinctive behavior does not depend upon the specific details of an individual's learning experiences. Instead, instinctive behavior develops in the same way for all individuals of the same species or of the same sex of a species. For example, birds will build the form of nest typical of their species although they may never have seen such a nest being built before. Some butterfly species undertake long migrations to wintering grounds that they have never seen. Behavior in animals often reflects the influence of a combination of instinct and learning. The basic song pattern of many bird species is inherited, but it is often refined by learning from other members of the species. Dogs that naturally seek to gather animals such as sheep or cattle into a group are said to have a herding instinct, but the effective use of this instinct by the dog also requires learning on the dog's part. Instinct, as opposed to reflex, is usually used of inherited behavior patterns that are more complex or sometimes involve a degree of interaction with learning processes.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/instinct

Answer 7

new thing for me to know thnx @Miss_Deva and nice question @Parsa

Answer 8

wow ! nice in here...