AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -David, Amy’s uncle, only some time later explains the viewer about the natural process of imprinting, which all geese do as soon as they hatch. The movie focuses on this process by portraying close ups of Amy’s face only and the little goslings in their struggle to break away from their eggshells.

Detailed explanation-2: -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. Lorenz believed that once imprinting has occurred, it cannot be reversed, nor can a gosling imprint on anything else.

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: -Filial imprinting. Filial imprinting in ducks and geese occurs during a ‘critical or sensitive’ period just after hatching, typically during the first 24-48 hours of life. During this time, the duckling will learn to follow its mother, who is usually the first large moving creature it sees.

Detailed explanation-5: -imprinting, in psychobiology, a form of learning in which a very young animal fixes its attention on the first object with which it has visual, auditory, or tactile experience and thereafter follows that object.