Drosophila behavior

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Борис Лейкин, 11.01.2007 20:34

I'm talking about wing threat. In the video I watched there, when one fly runs next to another, it suddenly raises and lowers its wings up. I thought, where did this behavior come from, is it genetically programmed or not? And then recently I go into the kitchen, where I left a dirty pineapple plate after the New Year holidays, and I see five fruit flies running around on it and fighting (wow, and how I didn't notice that they were fighting before), well, not much fighting, without boxing. I took a closer look and saw: first the fruit fly runs and runs calmly just like that, and then at some distance from another fly (no more than 6 cm) it starts twitching its wings so many times and not just once, it turns out. And then I realized why this was so. To. Lorenz "Aggression is the so-called evil": "a man and an animal are a ship ruled by several captains at the same time" That is, there is a conflict of two motives in drosophila from the fear of flying away! and to attack, her hormones are periodically released different, so she twitches her wings. And this behavior is not genetically programmed, right?