AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lorenz demonstrated the phenomenon by appearing before newly hatched mallard ducklings and imitating a mother duck’s quacking sounds, upon which the young birds regarded him as their mother and followed him accordingly. In 1936 the German Society for Animal Psychology was founded.

Detailed explanation-3: -When the geese hatched Lorenz imitated a mother duck’s quacking sound, upon which the young birds regarded him as their mother and followed him accordingly. The other group followed the mother goose. Lorenz found that geese follow the first moving object they see.

Detailed explanation-4: -Imprinting is the process of making an “imprint” (marking) something or someone. For example, after birth or hatching, the newborn follows another animal that it recognizes or marks as its mother (filial imprinting).