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00 Crows and all corvines are 01 b 00 easily imprinted with the image of their keeper 02 b 00 . 02 br
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02 p 01 b 01 span 00 Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: 02 span 02 b 00 01 b 01 span 00 imprinting 02 span 02 b 00 01 p 00 Form of learning wherein 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. In nature, the object is almost always a parent; in experiments, other animals and inanimate objects have been used. Imprinting has been studied extensively only in birds, but a comparable form of learning apparently takes place among many mammals and some fishes and insects.
- 02 p 01 b 01 span 00 Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: 02 span 02 b 00 01 b 01 span 00 imprinting 02 span 02 b 00 01 p 00 Form of learning wherein 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.
- In nature, the object is almost always a parent; in experiments, other animals and inanimate objects have been used.
- Imprinting has been studied extensively only in birds, but a comparable form of learning apparently takes place among many mammals and some fishes and insects.
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00 This is a special meaning of the word "imprint." Many articles on caring for wild baby birds warn about the danger of having a bird imprint on a human instead of another bird, making it hard to ever release the bird into the wild. 02 p
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