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Animal ethology Comparative psychology Animal models · Zoology

In ethology, an innate releasing mechanism is a hypothetical innate system within an animal that responds to a stimulus in the environment to produce a pre-programmed stereotyped behavior or fixed action pattern.

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• Konrad Lorenz
• Niko Tinbergen