Rather, the young birds imitate the actions they observe being performed by their foster parents.
The actors are flesh and blood, they must imitate the actions of besotted lovers.
They do not closely observe their environment or naturally imitate the actions of others.
Then last year top officials in the U.T. athletics department decided to imitate the actions of the employees at the Erwin Center.
In Ireland, a boy at school, tries to imitate the actions of the young men he reads about in books on English schools.
According to Neal Gabler, the author of "Life: The Movie -- How Entertainment Conquered Reality," a federal censorship bill proposed in 1916 argued right from the get-go that lunatics might imitate the actions they saw on screen.
There is also an imitation game played by the British intelligence forces, who, having cracked the Enigma code, must imitate a clueless but believably lucky opponent and use the intercepted information judiciously so as not to give away their accomplishment — itself the product of a machine that imitates the actions of an extremely clever puzzle-solver.
Researcher Diane Poflin-Dubois of Concordia University in Canada looked at 60 infants and conducted a series of experiments which led her to find that the children were far less likely to imitate the actions of a person who was deemed 'unreliable.' To establish this, firstly the children were split into two groups and each were given what researchers call an emotional referencing task.
The fact that dogs have this behavior suggests one doesn't need the full repertoire of human cognitive skills to selectively imitate the actions of another, says Range.
MTV responded by moving the series to a later airtime and adding disclaimers to future episodes stating explicitly not to imitate the actions of the characters, as well as removing all references to fire from the episodes.
Raloxifene is thought to imitate the actions of estrogen on bone, since they both occupy the same cellular receptors.
