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What is a natural behavior? I argue that the study of natural behaviors is often the study of the spontaneous behaviors of animals placed in quantifiably different environments. For behavioral generalists such as rodents, humans, and many other species, there may be no such definable construct as a native habitat or natural behavior, due to their successful abilities and needs to rapidly adapt to a wide range of different ecosystems. Instead of prioritizing naturalness, it may be more essential to determine objective outcome measures related to specific behaviors; i.e., which sequences of behaviors and adaptive mechanisms allow animals to survive and reproduce, across a range of dynamic or hazardous physical and social environments.
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