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Imagine that you are out in a forest, and you observe that squirrels there appear to cache their food only in the vicinity of certain species of of plants. Construct a hypothesis for how this behavior may have been the product of (a) Natural Selection (b) individual learning and (c) social learning

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(a) Natural Selection

Only squirrels that were able to hide their food by distinguishing different plants were successfully able to survive.

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(b) individual learning

The squirrels learned this behavior early in their lives because of imprinting at an early age from their parent's behavior.

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social learning

Learnt it from other members of the squirrel population
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