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But, it was not until the early 1900s that any scientific studies were done of the phenomenon. Austrian naturalist Konrad Lorenz became the first to codify and establish the science behind the imprinting process. Lorenz found that when young birds came out of their eggs they would become attached to the first moving object they encountered. In most cases in the wild, that would be their mother.
It is thought that the Greylag goose is the ancestor of most domestic geese that we have in Europe today (the exception being African and Chinese geese that are thought to descend from the Wild Swan goose).e have a Keeping Geese FAQ section (below) which should answer most of your questions and a Beginners Guide To Keeping Geese in the general geese sub-category which provides a lot of useful information for you to get started.