Chapter 183

He Yifei was puzzled and asked, "principal, what is the situation of the carved owl? Is there something wrong with your health? "

Fang Ye looked at him and was not afraid at all. Instead, he "sobbed" and shouted. He looked like a carved owl begging for food. His eyebrows became dignified and somewhat uncertain. He hesitated and said, "is it an imprint behavior?"

He Yifei was surprised and opened his mouth. His eyes showed incredible color: "impression? No? "

Originally, he didn't think about that, but after listening to Fang Ye's words, he looked at the shape of the carved owl. It was really a bit like it!

Imprint is a special learning behavior in animal behavior. Some organisms will be influenced by some external information for a lifetime shortly after birth or hatching.

For example, some newly hatched young birds or newborn mammals will learn to know and follow the first creature they see after opening their eyes.

Lorentz, an Austrian animal behaviorist, once did such an experiment. He divided the eggs of grey geese into two groups for hatching. One group was hatched by female geese and the other by incubators. As a result, the geese hatched in incubators regarded Lorentz as their mother. Wherever Lorentz went, the geese followed him.

If you buckle two groups of geese under a box, when you lift the box, the geese will have two directions, one group will run to the mother goose and the other to Lorentz.

Since these newly hatched geese remembered Lorenz, even when they reached adulthood, they still followed him. When he swam, these geese would closely follow him and show their dependence on him.

Imprinting behavior mostly occurs in the childhood of animals, and some special skills can only be learned at this time. For example, the easiest time for chicks to learn to fly is a few months after birth. After this time, they may not fly for a lifetime.

At present, scientists have not understood the reason. It is speculated that the nervous system may be in a special state at birth. With age, the nervous system gradually changes and can no longer carry out impression learning.

Moreover, the impression will have an impact on the behavior of animals for a lifetime, may regard humans as similar, rely on humans, and even courtship humans at the age of sexual maturity.

For example, the staff in the giant panda breeding base always wear panda clothes when taking care of the newborn pandas, not to sell cute, but to reduce the possible imprinting behavior.

Therefore, when raising young animals, if the keepers take care of them carefully when they are young, although the survival rate can be greatly improved, the trust relationship can also be established to facilitate the daily management in the future, and the training will be more cooperative.

But even so, we should let the cubs stay with their mother and compatriots. If they can breastfeed normally, try to let the mother take the cubs, so that the cubs can have the opportunity to learn more survival skills and show more natural behaviors when they grow up.

Imprint behavior has different effects on various animals, and the most obvious embodiment is birds!

Therefore, when rescuing birds, especially young birds, we should be very careful to avoid letting them see the appearance of human beings.

When feeding the chicks, the staff of the Bird Rescue Center usually wear a bird's Headcover on their head, wear black feather clothes and dress up as a large bird.

Or simply take a board to cover your face and poke two holes in it. When young birds are young, they will remember a board or stake to feed themselves, but they can't find such a stake when they grow up.

Including the hands of the staff who feed the chicks are also bird puppets, or long blunt head tweezers disguised as bird beaks, and they can't speak during feeding.

Some people don't know the imprinting behavior of birds. It's normal to see a young bird learning to fly fall to the ground and hop there by the side of the road. The parent bird may be watching. As a result, I picked it up and took it home to raise it myself. I thought it was doing a good job to save the bird. In fact, the bird almost died all its life. Even if it can't die, it can't leave human beings.

Fang Ye didn't think about the imprint behavior at first, mainly because the carved owl is already an adult bird! It is reasonable to say that when an adult bird passes the age of a young bird, it will not produce an impression.

There are still marks in adulthood, such as vultures!

Birds are easy to produce impressions, and vultures are particularly easy to produce impressions. Therefore, they are also dependent on humans when fed in adulthood.

Once the police of a police station in Inner Mongolia rescued the vultures and released them. When the police patrolled, the vultures flew back with the police car all the way. They stayed at the police station. The police had to feed them 6 kilograms of meat every day and spend 150 yuan on food. This matter was also hot searched.

But Fang Ye never knew that the adult birds of carved owls are so easy to produce impressions. It's not written in this book!

After rescuing the carved owl, he had only a short contact time. It took him only a few minutes to feed and change water every day. Although he wanted to touch the carved owl, he didn't roll it. The carved owl usually stayed in the nursery without being disturbed.

It's not as cautious as it is with chicks, but it also keeps enough alienation.

Therefore, at the beginning of wild release, although the carved owl looked a little wrong, he didn't think of the impression at all. Today, when he Yifei called and said that the carved owl was still in its place, he still didn't think about it.

Looking at the carved owl's head to himself, he looked eager and "purred" for a while!

You are a mature eagle owl. You should learn to find food by yourself instead of being a big baby and waiting for others to feed you!

What's the matter? Is it that carved owls become birds that are easy to imprint, or is it related to their natural heart skills? Or is it the reason why the eagle owl feels that it can be trusted?

Fang ye thought and was annoyed. He couldn't help raising his arm and slapped himself in the face!

He Yifei looked silly. What's the matter with the headmaster? He suddenly went crazy?

Seeing that Fang Ye wanted to come to himself, he quickly took his hand and said nervously and eagerly, "principal, principal! Come on, come on, principal! No, no! "

Fang Ye bit his teeth, raised his head, looked sad and angry, and his eyes gleamed with tears: "I'm so angry. I blame my nowhere to put, terrible and handsome! Why am I so handsome! "

He Yifei thought that Fang Ye was sad and blamed for his care of the carved owl. When he heard his words, he suddenly felt a black line, and wanted to make complaints about it. He pulled the hand that did not allow his fans to face, and wanted to simply let go.

holy crap

Headmaster, you have to be shameless. Do you praise yourself so much.