Imprinting (psychology)
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In psychology and ethology, imprinting is a relatively rapid learning process that occurs during a particular developmental phase of life and leads to corresponding behavioural adaptations. The term o
Imprinted Canada geese (Branta canadensis) and common crane (Grus grus) flying with an ultralight aircraft
Ducklings following their mother
Konrad Lorenz
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Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often rega
Imprinting (psychology)
…Douglas Spalding, and again in the 20th century by the early ethologist Oskar Heinroth; it was studied extensively and popularized by his disciple Konrad Lorenz working with greylag geese. Lorenz demonstrated how incubator-hatched geese would imprint on the first suitable moving stimulus they saw within what…
Lorenz in 1978
Lorenz as a Soviet POW in 1944
With Nikolaas Tinbergen (left), 1978
With Nikolaas Tinbergen (right), 1978