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Stickleback next to extracted Schistocephalus solidus plerocercoids. The three-spined stickleback is a secondary intermediate host for the hermaphroditic parasite Schistocephalus solidus, a tapeworm of fish and fish-eating birds. The tapeworm passes into sticklebacks through its first intermediate hosts, cyclopoid copepods, when these are eaten ...
"Fixed action pattern" is an ethological term describing an instinctive behavioral sequence that is highly stereotyped and species-characteristic. [1] Fixed action patterns are said to be produced by the innate releasing mechanism, a "hard-wired" neural network, in response to a sign/key stimulus or releaser.
The stickleback family, Gasterosteidae, was first proposed as a family by the French zoologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1831. [1] It was long thought that the sticklebacks and their relatives made up a suborder, the Gasterosteoidei, of the order Gasterostiformes with the sea horses and pipefishes making up the suborder Syngnathoidei.
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The cats were adult domestic shorthairs of both sexes, all neutered or spayed. ... called the cat Facial Action Coding System, and looking at the number and types of facial muscle movements. The ...
Blue is the range of Felinae (excluding the domestic cat), green is the range of Pantherinae. Felidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, colloquially referred to as cats. A member of this family is called a felid. [1] [2] The term "cat" refers both to felids in general and specifically to domestic cats.
In the fifth episode, a black cat called Samli is made to drink a female character’s tea to see if it was spiked. A few moments later, the cat suffers convulsions and “dies”.
A young, photogenic, and unfeasibly vivacious single mom who claimed to be treating her terminal brain cancer with healthy eating and alternative medicine, she monetized her adoring audience ...