{"id":19162,"date":"2022-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/?post_type=purple_issue&p=19162"},"modified":"2022-11-09T11:16:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T10:16:36","slug":"can-baby-birds-really-imprint-on-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/2022\/11\/08\/can-baby-birds-really-imprint-on-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Can baby birds really imprint on humans?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Imprinting is a survival strategy that occurs when a newly hatched bird sees another animal and then forms a strong attachment to it. Usually it\u2019s the baby\u2019s mother, but sometimes it can be an inanimate object, such as a stick, or a different animal, such as a human. The most impressive demonstration of this has to be from Italian hang glider pilot Angelo d\u2019Arrigo. He reared a flock of Siberian cranes under the wing of his hang glider, and then in 2003, guided them all the way from northern Siberia to the Caspian Sea in Iran; a journey of 5,500km. <\/p>\n\n

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