Learned behavior or natural instinct?

A couple walking down the street see a dog being beaten, the woman immediately throws her arms around the dog while the man chases the abuser, with intent to harm.





While the woman automatically starts to ';nurture and console';, the man went into the ';protect and defend'; mode.





Learned behavior or natural instinct?Learned behavior or natural instinct?
I don't have anything to be sure beside general facts,but, I would say natural instinct.


When a man sees his ';mate'; (if were speaking in mammalistic terms) nurturing as she would an offspring it might send something to the brain saying its threatening him and his ';territory';.


Or the natural hormones play an effect.


Testosterone pumps when strong feelings occur so it being the more aggrasive ';take action'; hormone ,your brain interprets and runs after it.While the estrogen being the emotional one ,you feel like you should empathize with the dog.Learned behavior or natural instinct?
natural instincts
I ';think';, mind you this is my opinion, it is a little of both. First, women with good mothering skill most times had mothers with the same skills so learned accordingly. Second, same goes for men with good family oriented father who often protected there family from harm learned that behavior as well. That being said natural instinct with anyone going through that I think would be to protect and nurture the animal. but, not sure if it would be a natural reaction for the way it played out for the waman to always go to the dog and the man to run after the abuser because what if the abuser was a woman the man might inherently take care of the dog and the woman would have to deal with the abuser. So I believe we as humans have the capacity to learn and instinctually know things to help in certain situations.
I think it is natural instinct because women tend to be more caring then men and men tend to be more protective and tuff.
Learned behavior.