Conclusions

Concluded his research highlighted the importance of _____________ and the evolutionary __________________

Imprinting in animals

Advantage of forming an attachment

This is because the young animal that follows its mother is more likely to….

Be safe from predators, to be fed and learn how to find food

Overall, imprinting increases their chances of…

Survival and natural selection

Lorenz also identified a ________ in which imprinting had to have taken place

Critical period

This can be as brief as a…

Few hours after birth

If imprinting does not occur within this time, he found that chicks…

Did not attach themselves to a mother figure