Imprinting
This term isn’t really what people think it is due to Twilight’s allusion to this term. Imprinting is not claiming your soul-mate like Jacob does in the Twilight series. Instead, imprinting is actually a short period of learning for a newborn, not limited to human babies of course. This type of learning allows newly born animals to recognize their parents’ smell and sound of their voice—because they have horrible sight— shortly after they are born since parents are usually the first ones on the sight. Konrad Lauren was an ethologist who studied imprinting. He collected abandoned duck eggs and took care of them. When they were about to hatch, he was there waiting patiently. The result? The new ducklings followed him around and treated him as if he was their mother duck.
-Nicole Acnam
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