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Konrad Lorenz
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Austrian zoologist and ethologist whose studies of imprinting and instinctive behavior in animals, honored with the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, are foundational to comparative psychology's study of non-human behavior.
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionDescribed the process by which some nidifugous birds bond instinctively with the first moving object they see within the first hours of hatching, the phenomenon of imprinting. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Konrad Lorenz
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the process by which some nidifugous birds (i.e. birds that leave their nest early) bond instinctively with the first moving object that they see within the first hours of hatching
1. Wikipedia: Konrad Lorenz
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Austrian zoologist (1903–1989)
1. Wikipedia: Konrad Lorenz
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Lorenz showed that this behavior of imprinting is what allows the goose to learn to recognize members of its own species, enabling them to be the object of subsequent behavior patterns such as mating.
1. Wikipedia: Konrad Lorenz
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He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior.
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