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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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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 Konrad Lorenz
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Pioneer of ethology and the comparative study of behavior across species.
Lorenz's imprinting research established the concept of a critical period during which an organism is especially sensitive to a particular kind of learning.
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Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (Austrian German: [ˈkɔnraːd tsaxaˈriːas ˈloːrɛnts] ; 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist.
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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
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Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (Austrian German: [ˈkɔnraːd tsaxaˈriːas ˈloːrɛnts] ; 7 November 1903 - 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist.
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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.
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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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