Vintage psychology study of imprinting in ducks. Behaviorism, duck science

I just hatched one 2 days ago who was stuck in the egg. I helped it out and spent the majority of its first day with it. Guess what! It thinks I’m it’s mom. I never believed this until actually experiencing it.

I found this to be quite interesting. It teaches quite a bit about animal behaviors, and particularly the bond between a parent to its offspring and specifically how that bond is formed. One thing I found strange is when they did the experiment with the ducklings that were 30 hours old, although they clearly weren't imprinting on the objects that were introduced to them I found it interesting that they were still making the distress call and seemed to be looking for something other than the object in their vicinity. My question is why would they be making a distress call and searching for something if they won't imprint on anything at 30-hours old and up until that point no animal or object was ever introduced or otherwise shown to them?

No one ever forgets their mother, even if she is a toy train.

As all experiments on animals are this was so sad 😭

The experiment with the rabbit was dangerous as bunnies can turn around and stomp their feet really fast ... it’s dangerous for the baby duck to be in that

Thanks TikTok now I’m watching this 12min experiment 😑

I have 2 baby ducklings at home and they imprinted on me they go crazy when im not around,distress calling and when i show up they show quiet little peeps, follow me around and hop on me and lay on me. Its actually really cute its weird tho cause i got them when they were 4 days old so the imprinting was late but almost immediate after. The one is a runt and hes missing half of his beak he relies on me more than his sister does.

I wanna be adopted by a baby duck now 🥺 Behaviourism will never not be cool.

It makes me really uncomfortable watching this but sometimes in science you have to do some cruel things

This feels cruel

We are monsters indeed

Those poor chickies I want to adopt them all🥺

Moving toy train: exists Duckling: mommy🥹🥹

This makes my heart melts soo cute

poor ducks lol

This is torturous for the poor baby ducks and for the viewers! Just give them thier momma's 😭

I am a year 4 zoology student and looked for this video to understand imprinting in animal behavior and this is wonderful!

How will I be able to do these experiments. Taking the toy away from her and listening to all those distress calls 😭

Buttt all ducks look & sound the same... how do they not get confused??? Is it also by smell?!?!

"On wobbly legs, it seems to look for something, even though there is virtually nothing to see in the experiment's featureless environment" is just such a funny line. the 2:32 segment is hilarious!