Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Imprinting/quotes/poem/2/6/2024

The Canada Goose Chin Strap


Aloha

Imprinting

The black bear has a white chest patch, also known as a blaze, for a variety of reasons. One theory is that it serves as a visual cue for mother bears to locate their cubs in dense forest or tall grass.

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It usually occurs early in life, during a critical period. That is why the textbooks call it phase-sensitive learning. It is learning which happens at a particular age or a particular life stage. The animal fixes on a particular signal (sound or sight), which is said to be 'imprinted' onto the subject. The process of imprinting is caused by an inherited instinct.

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Imprint

Mama Mergansers have a white chin too
Like the Canada Goose do
And such are for the little ones
Across the Animal Kingdom
To glue and follow follow.

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Notes: sometimes a reach pans out...when Maya my dog was a puppy, I was taken with her coloration...white chest, white boots...and I looked about to see if it was rare...nope...found a whole litter of Husky/Shepard lookalikes...but I began seeing the white chinstrap/chest/bib/blaze on other animals, on Canada Geese, which are all over the parks hereabout that have a pond...took the searchup by the horns this evening, and found imprinting...that's it!...to confirm, I looked up Mergansers, and sure enough, a white chin on the females...I kinda imprinted on Mergansers on first seeing them on the Merced in the Valley!

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