Hygin Delimat and Josseline Black apply certain metaphors derived from the bird kingdom to the public/private identity of their imagined human and question the appearance of genuine individuality. Our Ethology unfolds as an evolution, a continuous process of learning amidst the swaying demands of conformity and rebellion.
Imprinting is any kind of phase-sensitive learning that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behavior.* Imprinting happens for example at the very beginning of bird’s life, when it attaches to and later considers as its mother, the firstly seen animate or inanimate entity.