“…In the domestic chick ( Gallus gallus), both the lateral septum and the avian partial homolog of the medial amygdala, the nucleus taeniae, are selectively responsive to features of predisposed stimuli (Lorenzi et al., ; Mayer, Rosa‐Salva, Loveland, & Vallortigara, ; Mayer, Rosa‐Salva, & Vallortigara, ) and these brain nuclei are known to express nonapeptide receptors in several species, including the chicken (Goodson, Schrock, Klatt, Kabelik, & Kingsbury, ; Leung et al., ; Ondrasek et al., ; Selvam, Jurkevich, & Kuenzel, ; Wilson et al., ). Therefore, it is reasonable to suggest that nonapeptide signalling in these brain nuclei may also be important for initiating the process of imprinting.…”