Will a chick take the first chicken it sees in the world as its mother?

It's not just about seeing chickens, if you see people, you will also treat people as mothers.

Animals will regard the live animals they see at first sight as their mothers, which is the imprint learning in animal behavior.

Imprint learning is a learning style in the early postnatal period of an animal, which has a specific sensitive period. For example, the famous Austrian biologist Konrad Lorenz conducted an unusual experiment on a grey-legged goose (or duckling). He hatched the eggs laid by the grey-legged goose in two groups.

The first group is hatched by the mother goose, and the first live animals that hatch are the ones they see are their mothers, so they follow wherever the mother goes. The second group of eggs is placed in an artificial incubator, and the geese are born so that they do not see their mothers, but let them see Lorenz herself first. So wherever Lorenz went, the gosling followed, and the gosling took Lorenz as his "mother".

Lawrenz then put the two flocks of goslings together and held them under a box for the mother goose to watch from a short distance. When Lorenz lifted the box, the frightened goslings ran in two directions: the ones that remember the mother ran towards the mother goose, and the ones that remembered Lorenz ran towards Lorenz.

According to experiments, there are many kinds of animals that can produce imprinting behavior, most birds, guinea pigs, sheep, deer, goats, buffalo, an insect and many kinds of fish. Animals that can form imprints are those that are born and can move around immediately. Imprinting is an important form of learning for newborn animals, as it allows these defenseless animals to cling to their parents, thus making both food** and shelter requirements more secure.

Not necessarily....But living together is almost like a mother...

Because it has been discussed many times here"First the egg or the chicken"problems. And the conclusion is"First there were chickens"..

Because the egg came first or the chicken came first, the egg here refers to"Eggs"

The definition of an egg is: an egg laid by a chicken. So. First there were chickens

So. In that theory, there was the hen first.

There is a rooster first, and it can't lay eggs.

Hehe, it can't be verified scientifically, so you might as well discuss it from a philosophical point of view (sophistry).

First of all, I guess there are three potential answers to this question: first the rooster, first the hen, and all at the same time. Let's do multiple-choice questions.

If it is the rooster that comes first, the question that arises is, can the rooster also lay eggs? Of course not, where do chickens come from without eggs? So it won't be the rooster that came first. Slow mold drying.

Was that the hen first? Hehe, but everyone knows that if a hen does not mate with a rooster, the eggs laid are not fertilized, and the chicks will not be produced, hehe, so it still won't work, and it won't be the hen first.

So, if it's an exam, I'll choose a rooster and a hen at the same time.

It's a boring question, so take a good look at the article on the origin and development of species.

At the same time. Chickens are not the earliest species.

Pre-existing proteins.

Viewpoint 1: From the question of biological origin. Chickens are ancient bird transformations.

Birds also hatch from their eggs. The key is the process of mutation of the hatched eggs in ancient times. It is a bird's egg transformed by a microorganism.

The embryonic form of a bird is slowly formed in the egg and eventually breaks out. Thus the bird was born. Therefore.

From this theory. It was the egg that came first.

And what we usually argue about is chicken and egg or egg. More often with perturbation holes in philosophy. Illustrate the principle of coexistence of things and me. It is to achieve the purpose of discussion and progress through debate. In fact, it should not have to be verified by biology in the first place.

Opinion 2: It should have been a chicken first, because a chicken can mutate from a bird of the same kind, and even if it has mutated in an egg, the egg is also the egg of that bird.