Dr. Karolina Westlund

So there's something really powerful there. There's inbreeding avoidance. It's sort of a mechanism that prevents many animal species from mating with someone who's too genetically similar to yourself since we get this inbreeding depression. But there's also sort of don't waste your time mating with someone that you can't even produce offspring with.

So there's something really powerful there. There's inbreeding avoidance. It's sort of a mechanism that prevents many animal species from mating with someone who's too genetically similar to yourself since we get this inbreeding depression. But there's also sort of don't waste your time mating with someone that you can't even produce offspring with.

However, one other exception that came to mind was ungulates. Sometimes, and I have this memory of being, I was in Africa back in 1995 at the Chimfunji Wildlife Orphanage, walking chimps into the forest to sort of rehabilitate them and

However, one other exception that came to mind was ungulates. Sometimes, and I have this memory of being, I was in Africa back in 1995 at the Chimfunji Wildlife Orphanage, walking chimps into the forest to sort of rehabilitate them and

However, one other exception that came to mind was ungulates. Sometimes, and I have this memory of being, I was in Africa back in 1995 at the Chimfunji Wildlife Orphanage, walking chimps into the forest to sort of rehabilitate them and

And they had a young duiker there, which is a very small, like, yay high antelope kind of thing, who had been orphaned and raised, bottle raised and sexually imprinted on humans. So he came up and started, you know, humping me, more or less thinking that I was his kind.

And they had a young duiker there, which is a very small, like, yay high antelope kind of thing, who had been orphaned and raised, bottle raised and sexually imprinted on humans. So he came up and started, you know, humping me, more or less thinking that I was his kind.

And they had a young duiker there, which is a very small, like, yay high antelope kind of thing, who had been orphaned and raised, bottle raised and sexually imprinted on humans. So he came up and started, you know, humping me, more or less thinking that I was his kind.

So that type of sexual imprinting is when predominantly, I think, males learn they imprint sexually on the type of individual that raised them. So that's the type of individual that they will then later also try to court. Yeah.

So that type of sexual imprinting is when predominantly, I think, males learn they imprint sexually on the type of individual that raised them. So that's the type of individual that they will then later also try to court. Yeah.

So that type of sexual imprinting is when predominantly, I think, males learn they imprint sexually on the type of individual that raised them. So that's the type of individual that they will then later also try to court. Yeah.

I think Conrad Lawrence had also in his, one of his books, he described some sort of corvid species who he also raised from young and who started courting his, I don't know,

I think Conrad Lawrence had also in his, one of his books, he described some sort of corvid species who he also raised from young and who started courting his, I don't know,

I think Conrad Lawrence had also in his, one of his books, he described some sort of corvid species who he also raised from young and who started courting his, I don't know,

secretary or someone and the interesting story there was the courting behavior in this bird is vomiting you know leaving like a present and offering food in any open surface or orifice so he would try to sort of get her to open her mouth and when she didn't he would go and leave the present in her ear instead

secretary or someone and the interesting story there was the courting behavior in this bird is vomiting you know leaving like a present and offering food in any open surface or orifice so he would try to sort of get her to open her mouth and when she didn't he would go and leave the present in her ear instead

secretary or someone and the interesting story there was the courting behavior in this bird is vomiting you know leaving like a present and offering food in any open surface or orifice so he would try to sort of get her to open her mouth and when she didn't he would go and leave the present in her ear instead

So that's the other type of imprinting you're talking about. That's filial imprinting. So there are two types. There's the sexual imprinting where you learn who to mate with. And there's the filial imprinting where you sort of learn who to feel safe with. And they start following that individual.

So that's the other type of imprinting you're talking about. That's filial imprinting. So there are two types. There's the sexual imprinting where you learn who to mate with. And there's the filial imprinting where you sort of learn who to feel safe with. And they start following that individual.

So that's the other type of imprinting you're talking about. That's filial imprinting. So there are two types. There's the sexual imprinting where you learn who to mate with. And there's the filial imprinting where you sort of learn who to feel safe with. And they start following that individual.