Imprinting with a little chick

Konrad Lorenz was a genius. Look at this little chick, "learning" how to eat. In nature it's as simple as: where mum picks, I chick pick. Lovely.

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Pets & Animals

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• imprinting
• konrad
• lorenz
• chick
• chicken
• bird
• uccelli
• vogel
• pulcino

[sourmanofcoal]

Is behavior genetic or learned?

[larissa79]

it's both I guess. The chick already 'knows' genetically that picking on the ground is = food, but needs someone to show how it works.

I guess we should ask Konrad Lorenz.

[ciciironwill27]

Are you Italian? I think I heard you speak in Italian...I speak a little Italian...I Speak Polish from my Mom and Spanish from my Dad and i'm learning Italian...the chick is very cute btw

I have a goose ready o hatch any day now.

nice video

Ciao

[varnonzero]

The bird you typically hear about related to imprinting, chickens, ducks, etc, are actualy some of the least interesting ones. A chicken can take care of itself completely from day one. It just really helps to have parents to look out for you.

The kinds of birds that sit in a nest and beg for food are a lot more interesting. Even when they can fly and are physicaly able to do anything, they will starve to death if the parents don't feed them.

Imprinting is really interesting.

[sourmanofcoal]

i guess a better example would be, little baby snakes leave its mom to go hunting, they already know they need to catch some insect to eat, a behavior exhibited by reptiles. Mammals and birds rear their young, show them how things are done. So for some species, imprinting works, and for others it doesn't. really depends on how that specie of animal behaves in the wild and what information it depends on for its survival such as instinctual or learned.

[wanemabel]

sei semplicemente fantastica, come sempre :)