What drives a serial killer? Hardwired instincts, symbolic triggers, and ritualized predation—unraveling ancestral imprints.

The western jackdaw is a relatively small bird from the raven family that not too many people know about. Although almost everyone has likely seen and enjoyed it during their nature outings in Israel, ...

Others shared their knowledge of imprinting. Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz, in 1935, wanted to test the theory, where some animals form an attachment to the first large object they see.

Austrian biologist Konrad Lorenz came up with his "kinderschema" or child scheme, which is a list of physical characteristics that define what we consider cute. He observed that cute animals share ...

Konrad Lorenz, a pioneer in ethology, observed that militant enthusiasm—the instinct to defend one’s group against outsiders—exists across species, from greylag geese to humans. He wrote ...