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Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
The learning of a behavioral pattern that occurs soon after birth or hatching in certain animals in which a long lasting response to an individual such as a parent or an object is rapidly acquired it is particularly noted in the response of certain birds to the animal they first see after hatching usually the parent as in ducks who will follow the adult duck they first see
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