Lorenz, Father Goose

S5 E24: Young Lorenz discovered his love for animals at a very young age. At his parents’ house in Altenberg, Austria, where he grew up, were plenty of them: dogs, monkeys, geese, ducks and many more. At first, Lorenz investigated the behavior of jackdaws, which he raised in a natural environment. He observed their courtship behavior, the pairing, hatching of their eggs and their fledglings’ first flight. Then he accompanied the geese and found out that it’s their mother’s call that binds the young animals to her. Lorenz imitated that call and thus he became father goose himself.