Whooping cranes raised by sandhill cranes were accepted, raised, and taught to migrate by their surrogate sandhill crane parents. when they matured, the whooping cranes showed no interest in breeding with other whooping cranes. this unfortunate desire to mate with sandhill cranes was a fine example of whooping cranes showing __________?

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I believe the answer is: Imprinting

Imprinting refers to the phenomenon when a certain organism come to recognize other organisms as their object of desire or trust.
In human civilization, this could be seen when we have a strong attraction to people who display characteristics of people in our hometown.