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See "King Solomon's Ring", by Konrad Lorentz. He describes shuffling around his garden in a squatting posture, followed by a column of imprinted greylag gosling
by denton-scratch 5y ago
See "King Solomon's Ring", by Konrad Lorentz. He describes shuffling around his garden in a squatting posture, followed by a column of imprinted greylag goslings. They only recognised him as their mum when he was under a meter tall, hence the squatting.
I'm not sure that an 84-day-old bird still counts as a "baby bird"; don't most hatchlings fledge within 30 days or so?
- bayesian_horse 5y agoWhen she took him in, it had closed eyes, so that still qualifies as "baby bird", and it "fledged" relatively soon thereafter, though it kept a social bond with the woman, even past adulthood, which would have been at least a few weeks later.
- btilly 5y agoIn Last Chance to See (https://www.amazon.com/Last-Chance-See-Douglas-Adams/dp/0434009245/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 https://www.amazon.com/Last-Chance-See-Douglas-Adams/dp/0434...) there is a story of a baby bird that couldn't imprint on the person who raised him, but did imprint on the yellow glove he was fed with. As an adult, the bird did not recognize his own species, but did recognize the glove and was willing to mate with it. Since the species in question was severely endangered, this was seen as useful as a way to try to keep the species alive.
- moron4hire 5y agoMaybe the bird had a latex fetish