Hang around the ducklings right after they hatch. The birds open their eyes and immediately start looking for a caregiver. By Malia Wollan “Ducklings will imprint on anything that moves that’s bigger ...

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Conventional wisdom states that, newly hatched, a duckling will immediately clamp onto the first suitable mother figure it lays eyes on. We often see this ability, known as imprinting, go awry—in the ...

When Stillwater Area High School junior Peter Jansen walks out of sight, his latest Advanced Placement Biology experiment starts "cheeping like crazy." That's because Perry, a three-week-old ...