ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
INTRODUCTION
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Question
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Dian Fossey
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Jane Goodall
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Conrad Lorenz
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Ivan Pavlov
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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: -Konrad Lorenz, (born Nov. 7, 1903, Vienna, Austria-died Feb. 27, 1989, Altenburg), Austrian zoologist, founder of modern ethology, the study of animal behaviour by means of comparative zoological methods.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Konrad Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, known as the founder of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior.