Animal behavior

Konrad Lorenz, foremost authority on animal behavior from the University of Muenster in Germany, discusses imprinting and animal behavior on this broadcast. A film is shown in which Lorenz separates a number of greylag goose eggs, imprinting and raising one half by himself, while the others are raised by the goose mother. Lorenz teaches the goslings to swim and fly and also learns to communicate with them. At the end of the experiment, he brings the two groups together and then calls to the geese he had raised. Those raised by Lorenz go to him as quickly as the others go to their natural mother. Lorenz also visits the "Farm in the Zoo" at the Bronx Zoo (i.e. New York Zoological Park) in a live remote transmission. He explains how he learned about animal behavior and communication through field study and experimentation.