Sentences with phrase «escape response»

They have one of the fastest escape responses of any animal on the planet, able to flee at 500 body lengths per second — 16 times as fast as a cheetah.

As human activity increases in the Arctic, there may be more chance of inciting this potentially harmful escape response in narwhals.

More research is needed to understand why the snails show a degraded escape response, or if they may adapt to more acidic ocean conditions in the future.

«Dozens of West Coast species display escape responses to sea stars,» said senior author Brian Gaylord, a professor of evolution and ecology at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory and Jellison's faculty adviser.

«Our results illustrate the complex balance between whale attacks and fish escape responses, and how the lunge characteristics of the whales may be related to the escape abilities of targeted prey,» says Dr. Paolo Domenici, who spent several weeks at Hopkins Marine Station and helped lead the study.

«The lower retina seems to be used for imaging the peripheral field of view, whereas the upper retina is used for imaging moving objects in bright light conditions and is the primary sensor for the scallop escape response mechanism.»

Tanimoto, Yamazoe - Umemoto and colleagues discovered that a tiny roundworm with only 302 nerve cells do «decision - making» during escape response from the aversive odor.

«The fish appear to reduce their respiration rate, but they don't entirely switch everything off because they still show a classic escape response if they are touched, even when under anoxic conditions.

As melting sea ice opens up the Arctic to more human activity, the mammals, known as «unicorns of the sea» for their single tusk, may be more exposed to the potentially harmful escape response, scientists say.

But when pH levels fell to 7.1 or below, the snails failed to fully implement their escape response.

Neither did the snails recover their escape response when the water's acidity fluctuated between normal and more acidic levels.

However, the more acidic waters did impair the snails» escape response.

Experiments at UC Davis» Bodega Marine Laboratory show that the snails lose this escape response as waters become more acidic, a consequence of climate change.

The second was an escape response known as the C - start, in which the fish quickly curves into a «C» shape before flipping outwards and propelling itself rapidly forward.

Dr. Carey's colleagues in the Goldbogen Lab led by Dave Cade collected lunging data from live humpback whales during feeding, which informed the creation of a predatory «looming stimulus» model which they used to analyse the escape responses of anchovies in the lab.

A basic example of this is the escape response: When something moved towards a fly, they see that movement and jump away.

Anyone who has lived with a thunderstorm phobic dog knows the agitation, anxiety, fear, and, worst of all, escape response that accompanies thunderstorms.

National Geographic asks PSC's Kristin Laidre about a new unaffiliated study of the escape response of East Greenland narwhals.