findings

• The incubator group followed Lorenz everywhere
• The controlled group followed their mother
• Lorenz noted that the behaviour performed by the geese was called imprinting
• Geese usually imprint on the mother because that’s normally the first moving object they see
• Lorenz was able to demonstrate that geese would imprint on him if he was the first thing they saw
• This suggests that imprinting behaviour in geese is innate