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    1646 in a report by Athanasius Kircher, in which he subdued chickens. Tonic immobility (also known as the act of feigning death, or exhibiting thanatosis)...
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  • Tonic Immobility is the fifth studio album by musical supergroup Tomahawk. Released after an eight-year gap following their previous record, Tonic Immobility...
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    their blunt teeth. Tonic immobility has been reported in several cartilaginous fishes, one of which is M. canis. Tonic immobility is induced by grasping...
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    released, which also revealed the name of their upcoming fifth album as Tonic Immobility, which has later been released on March 26, 2021. Bassist Trevor Dunn...
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  • known as rape paralysis, involuntary paralysis, fright (or faint), or tonic immobility, is a natural bodily survival reaction which can be automatically activated...
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  • remain immobile for as long as 30 minutes. Other methods of inducing this state are also known. Ethologists refer to this state as 'tonic immobility', i...
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    medial prefrontal cortex, the nucleus accumbens, and the amygdala. Tonic immobility (TI) is sometimes called "trancing" or "playing dead". Physiological...
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  • Paralysis (redirect from Tonic paralysis)
    Muscle relaxant Beriberi Neuroprosthetics Brain–computer interface Tonic immobility Cerebral palsy Cobratoxin Obdormition Narcolepsy Cataplexy "Paralysis...
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  • 1880 in German physiology literature to describe the phenomenon of tonic immobility also known as "playing possum" (in reference to the opossum's behavior...
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    pectoral fins in order to remove the fatty livers and likely induce tonic immobility to accomplish this safely. Before 2015, False Bay was well known for...
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    Pinch-induced behavioural inhibition (PIBI), also called dorsal immobility, transport immobility or clipnosis, is a partially inert state that results from...
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    Persistent vegetative state Resignation syndrome Sensory overload Tonic immobility Sleep paralysis Balaguer AP, Rivero IS (22 December 2021). "Electroconvulsive...
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    experienced at least 'significant' tonic immobility and 48 percent met the criteria for 'extreme' tonic immobility during the rape." The legal process...
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  • unique to rabbits, such as silflay (aboveground grazing) or tharn (tonic immobility). When speaking to other animals, the rabbits adopt a lingua franca...
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    Macroscope (Mack Avenue, 2014) With Tomahawk 2013 − Oddfellows 2021 – Tonic Immobility With Ahleuchatistas 2023 – Expansion (also on Trevor's label Riverworm...
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  • stress, e.g. fluctuating asymmetry, heterophil to lymphocyte ratio, and tonic immobility duration. Vent pecking can be related to disease or immune challenge...
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  • "playing dead" or "playing possum", although specialists use the terms "tonic immobility" or "thanatosis". A wide range of animals, e.g. lizards, birds, rodents...
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  • premise of the program is that sharks can be brought into a state of tonic immobility (a kind of trance) by flipping them on their back, and that this characteristic...
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    1 ft) great white shark. The orca held the shark upside down to induce tonic immobility and kept the shark still for fifteen minutes, causing it to suffocate...
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  • his tenure at Tulane, Gallup also developed a research interest in tonic immobility, or "animal hypnosis," which he continued at the University at Albany...
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    Unreleased tracks from Oddfellows 2021 "Business Casual" Tonic Immobility 2021 "Dog Eat Dog" Tonic Immobility 2021 "Predators and Scavengers Tonic Immobility...
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  • PMID 17880916. Suarez, Susan D.; Gallup, Gordon G. (July 1979). "Tonic Immobility as a Response to Rape in Humans a Theoretical Note". The Psychological...
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    defend themselves, P. scaber is a 'clinger' and adopts a posture of tonic immobility when faced with the threat of predation. A study of this thanatosis...
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  • lack of functional chloride channels.[citation needed] Fainting goat Tonic immobility New Forest pony Gutmann, Laurie; Phillips Lh, Lawrence (2008). "Myotonia...
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  • assault. The prevailing view amongst scientists is that this form of tonic immobility occurs in humans when no other options to avoid the sexual violence...
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    depressed breathing rate and decrease in movement, called tonic immobility. Tonic immobility is a reflex response that causes the fawn to enter a low body...
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    this species exhibits tonic immobility Graphisurus fasciatus is a species of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae. It was described by Degeer in...
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    evolutionary transformation of a well-known defensive mechanism, the tonic immobility reflex. This reflex, also known as animal hypnosis or death feigning...
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  • Locomotion Ingestive behavior Hoarding Nest building Exploration Play Tonic immobility (playing dead) Other miscellaneous behaviors (personal grooming, hibernation...
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  • relaxation, and euphoria in a captive bird as some birds exhibit tonic immobility when held upside down. Some killing cones have a clamp device attached...
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