animal behavior

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The Software Imprinting Dilemma

Ducklings and goslings imprint on the first creature they see shortly after birth. [Austrian naturalist Konrad Lorenz] discovered that if greylag geese were reared by him from hatching, they would treat him like a parental bird. The goslings followed Lorenz about, and when they were adults they courted him in

By Jeff Atwood ·
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