AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Filial imprinting. The best-known form of imprinting is filial imprinting, in which a young animal narrows its social preferences to an object (typically a parent) as a result of exposure to that object. It is most obvious in nidifugous birds, which imprint on their parents and then follow them around.

Detailed explanation-2: -Summary. Imprinting is a form of rapid, supposedly irreversible learning that results from exposure to an object during a specific period (a critical or sensitive period) during early life and produces a preference for the imprinted object.

Detailed explanation-3: -Animals can exhibit all three types of imprinting which include filial, sexual, and limbic.

Detailed explanation-4: -Filial imprinting: It is the most common type of imprinting seen between a parent and the newborn. For example, ducks and geese. Sexual imprinting: It is a type of imprinting where the animal learns the mate preferences at a young age by observing the parents as role models.

Detailed explanation-5: -Despite the fact that it is most commonly associated with ducklings, imprinting occurs in all animals. Following are examples of imprinting: Following incubation, a young chick can follow his/her mother and adjust to the climate where his/her mother goes, as well as the development of his/her mother.