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Activity anorexia; a condition where animals exercise excessively while simultaneously reducing their food intake. [ 5 ] Adjunctive behaviour ; an activity reliably accompanying another response that has been produced by a stimulus, especially when the stimulus is presented according to a temporally defined schedule. [ 6 ]
Injury in animals is damage to the body caused by wounding, change in pressure, heat or cold, chemical substances, venoms and biotoxins. Injury prompts an inflammatory response in many taxa of animals ; this prompts wound healing , which may be rapid, as in the Cnidaria .
Driving while listening to a certain snowman-themed seasonal song could land you in a snow bank if you're not careful. The ‘most dangerous’ Christmas song you should never listen to while ...
Wild animals can experience injury from a variety of causes such as predation; intraspecific competition; accidents, which can cause fractures, crushing injuries, eye injuries and wing tears; self-amputation; molting, a common source of injury for arthropods; extreme weather conditions, such as storms, extreme heat or cold weather; and natural disasters.
There are a number of poorly understood factors which might cause an animal to become a vagrant, including internal causes such as navigatory errors (endogenous vagrancy) and external causes such as severe weather (exogenous vagrancy). [2] Vagrancy events may lead to colonisation and eventually to speciation. [3]
The list below reveals some of the top-five strangest causes of wildfires, including a few that may surprise you. Mowers can create fires by throwing a spark from the exhaust.
Roadkill is a wild animal that has been killed by collision with motor vehicles. Wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) have increasingly been the topic of academic research to understand the causes, and how they can be mitigated. [1] [2] [3]
While the forecast shows warmer temperatures ahead, Peterson said that doesn’t mean chances for more snow are gone. The region sees snow through February and March and may be even into April and ...