Grey lag geese........................killing chickens.........while they are screaming.......by cutting their heads off with moving blades........I think that was in a South Park episode.............50 shades of grey...............we do have to eat to live..........and some decisions are tough................

I post this stuff like this.................b/c it might be in the code.......I am not sure either way........


Ducklings following their mother.The best-known form of imprinting is mental imprinting, in which a young animal acquires several of its behavioral characteristics from its parent. It is most obvious in nidifugous birds, which imprint on their parents and then follow them around.^[1] It was first reported in domestic chickens, by the 19th-century amateur biologist Douglas Spalding. It was rediscovered by the early ethologist Oskar Heinroth, and studied extensively and popularized by his disciple Konrad Lorenz working with greylag geese.^[2] Lorenz demonstrated how incubator-hatched geese would imprint on the first suitable moving stimulus they saw within what he called a "critical period" between 13–16 hours shortly after hatching. For example, the goslings would imprint on Lorenz himself (to be more specific, on his wading boots), and he is often depicted being followed by a gaggle of geese who had imprinted on him. Lorenz also found that the geese could imprint on inanimate objects. In one notable experiment, they followed a box placed on a model train in circles around the track.^[2] Filial imprinting is not restricted to non-human animals that are able to follow their parents, however.