 Dear students, in this topic we shall discuss two important learning behaviors that is habituation and imprinting. The learning behaviors are those which are variable with experience. Habituation and imprinting are two important learning behaviors. Habituation is the simplest form of learning. An animal learns to ignore a repeated or irrelevant stimulus. We define habituation as a loss of responsiveness to the stimuli that convey little or no new information. Let us take a few examples of habituation. Many mammals and birds recognize alarm calls of members of their own species. However, if alarm calls do not respond to a member of a species, then in such a situation this member's alarm calls do not respond. Common language is a cry wolf effect or a share aya share aya, which is the behavior and then animals of the species stop responding to such calls. Another example of habituation is in squirrels, which give a signal when a squirrel gives a signal when it is threatened. Other members of the species recognize that signal and go to a nearby refuge. However, an individual who gives fake calls is also recognized by the members of population or essay member's calls are ignored. Here students, habituation is a very significant phenomenon because habituation causes the conservation of energy and time, which saves the process of habituation on an unimportant stimuli. Energy and time are better spent on other important functions. Imprinting is another form of learning behavior, which is defined as the formation of a long lasting behavioral attachment to a particular individual or object at a specific stage in life. Imprinting is also a type of learning behavior during which a very young animal develops attachment with the very first object that it has visual, auditory or tactile experience. This experience can be gained and this attachment can be developed and that young one follows that object forever. Dear students, Imprinting is a specific, sensitive or critical period. Imprinting can only be developed during this time. This time is a limited developmental phase for certain learning behaviors. During this time, young imprint on their parents to learn the basic behaviors of the species. Youngs also learn to recognize their offspring. A good example of imprinting is observed in seagulls. Seagulls are only one or two days of a sensitive period for a parent to bond with their youngs. If they do not bond in one or two days, the parent will not care for its infant, which will lead to the death of the offspring. Dear students, a classic experiment, a behavioral scientist, Conard Lawrence, had done this on geese and from there he discovered the phenomenon of imprinting. Conard Lawrence had imprinted the gooselings with himself and left his imprint on them. This is how the geese were born. Conard Lawrence first saw them and he started following them. After that, the gooselings followed him and he was the mother of the gooselings. This experiment of Conard Lawrence resulted in the discovery and interpretation of the phenomenon of imprinting.