Question

The power of young birds to return to the original grounds of parents is
A. Intelligence and intuition
B. False conception
C. Instinct only
D. Intuition and instinct

Answer 1

Animals have special features or intelligence to find their homes and recognize their parents. Birds do not have specific intuitions to find the directions. To find the original nesting grounds of the parent birds have fixed behavior.

Complete answer:
Animals have special intelligence features to remember parents and home. Birds also remember their parental care. They do not have sufficient intelligence to locate their parents. Instinct refers to the fixed behavior. It helps the young birds to return to the original nesting grounds of the parents.
False conception does not help the birds to found their parents location. The young birds leave the nest two weeks after hatching and during this period of their lives they are fed on the ground by their parents.
Birds have strong navigational skills that they tend to remember their nests long after they have migrated away from it and come back later to lay eggs at the same location.
Ex- Birds including swifts and swallows return to the same nest-site each year but most nests, found in trees and hedges, are seldom used more than once.
The ability to know something directly without analytic reasoning is referred to as intuition. It also helps to analyze the gap between the conscious and non-conscious parts of our mind, and between instinct and reason.

Hence, the correct answer is option (C).

Note: Birds have the special senses of smell which help them to navigate their long migration route. The sun and the earth’s magnetic field help them to locate the directions. Birds build their nest and they instinctively build it to a design that is unique to their species. The birds have feathers, wings and lightweight which help in their flight.