Somehow in the evening, and it was in the middle of may, my friends came back to Smolensk on the highway where both sides of the forest comes close to the road. Suddenly the front of the car, a few dozen meters, the road ran over a moose.
The driver slowed down, and an experienced passenger, a biologist suddenly asked the driver to stop.
Passengers got out of the car and from what he saw on the side of the road just melted from the tenderness from the perfection and helplessness of God’s creation.
On the side of the road, clinging to the earth and to each other, were two of the same calf moose that ran across the road. The calves were a few days old, and they didn’t know what to do at the meeting with the big bearded guy.
These guys took the cameras, went to the kids and started to take photos.
Calves in a few minutes emboldened and started to pose better than the models.
After quite emboldened, the calves began to walk behind the men, and one of them went over to the man across the street, but the second had to move on hands and then had to rid himself, so they went to his mother, who was waiting for them in the trees seventy yards away.
In biology the movement of the animal babies for more than that is called a reaction route. The phenomenon of this reaction is that selaroides calves soon after birth, relentlessly moving next to their parents (and each other). This phenomenon is well known on the behavior of young animals. In mammals, the reaction sequence is especially well pronounced in ungulates, in which the cubs are born in a very Mature condition and very quickly acquire the ability to stand and walk. Due to the large role played in these animals the sense of smell, memorizing them takes place not only on optical and acoustic, but also on olfactory characteristics. Well described by the formation reactions of following in young ungulate biologist Walter. Isolated from after birth from mothers of pups in captivity, and at home, imprinting may occur in relation to a passing man if the baby will see it during the sensitive period. As seen my friends.
