AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lorenz found that geese follow the first moving object they see. This process is known as imprinting, and suggests that attachment is innate and programmed genetically.

Detailed explanation-2: -Imprinting for wild birds is crucial to their immediate and long-term survival. For example, precocial baby birds (such as ducks, geese, and turkeys) begin the process of imprinting shortly after hatching so that they follow the appropriate adult, providing them with safety.

Detailed explanation-3: -Filial imprinting is a process, readily observed in precocial birds, whereby a social attachment is established between a young animal and an object that is typically (although not necessarily) a parent.

Detailed explanation-4: -The imprinting of the young bird on one object necessarily closes down the possibility of its imprinting on others, as these will always be relatively less familiar. Thus, there is normally a relatively restricted period in the first few hours or days of life during which imprinting can occur.

Detailed explanation-5: -Famously described by zoologist Konrad Lorenz in the 1930s, imprinting occurs when an animal forms an attachment to the first thing it sees upon hatching. Lorenz discovered that newly hatched goslings would follow the first moving object they saw-often Lorenz himself.