Konrad Lorenz

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/konrad-lorenz

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Konrad Lorenz born?November 7, 1903
2. When did Konrad Lorenz die?February 27, 1989 (age 85)
3. Where was Konrad Lorenz born?Vienna, Austria
4. What is the career?Austrian zoologist, ethologist, ornithologist, and professor

Ethology: The scientific and objective study of animal behavior, typically under natural conditions, focusing on evolutionary and ecological aspects.
Imprinting: A form of learning in which an animal, typically a young bird, forms an attachment to the first moving object it sees, often its parent.
Instinct: An innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli, considered to be genetically based rather than learned.
Nidifugous: Describes young birds that are able to leave the nest shortly after hatching and are relatively mature and mobile.