AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Birds and mammals are born with a pre-programmed drive to imprint onto their mother. Imprinting provides animals with information about who they are and determines who they will find attractive when they reach adulthood. Imprinting has been used by mankind for centuries in domesticating animals and poultry.

Detailed explanation-2: -Imprinting and subsequent latchment is a primary stage of emotional and neurobehavioural development in which the infant recognises its mother through oral tactile memory for continuing evolutionary survival.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The young of many species are born relatively helpless: in songbirds, rats, cats, dogs, and primates, the hatchling or newborn infant is wholly dependent on its parents. These are altricial species.