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But, it was not until the early 1900s that any scientific studies were done of the phenomenon. Austrian naturalist Konrad Lorenz became the first to codify and establish the science behind the imprinting process. Lorenz found that when young birds came out of their eggs they would become attached to the first moving object they encountered. In most cases in the wild, that would be their mother.
____ 9. Geese that are exposed to a moving box during the first two days after hatching will imprint on the box. Geese that are totally isolated from any moving objects during the same period will never imprint on anything. These results show that a. young geese must see some type of box to imprint correctly. b. the first two days after hatching are a critical period for imprinting in geese. c. geese have an instinctive tendency to avoid moving, box-shaped objects. d. geese must be exposed to their mother more than two days after hatching to imprint on her.