How Does Imprinting Work?

Imprinting is a form of learning in which an animal gains its sense of species identification. Birds do not automatically know what they are when they hatch – they visually imprint on their parents during a critical period of development. After imprinting, they will identify with that species for life.

What does Jacob imprint on Renesmee mean?

By imprinting on Renesmee, Jacob's werewolves can't harm her, and following the above-mentioned stages of imprinting, Jacob would first act as an older brother to Renesmee until she grew up – which wasn't going to take long given her hybrid nature, which makes her age more quickly.

Can a human imprint on another human?

Positive sexual imprinting is a process by which individuals use the phenotype of their opposite-sex parent as a template for acquiring mates. Recent studies in humans have concluded that an imprinting-like mechanism influences human mate choice in facial traits.