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Other characters also feign for love. [5] Odysseus feigned madness by yoking a horse and an ox to his plow and sowing salt [6] or plowing the beach. Palamedes believed that he was faking and tested it by placing his son, Telemachus right in front of the plow. When Odysseus stopped immediately, his sanity was proven.
Birds often feign death to escape predation; for example tonic immobility in quail reduces the probability of attacks by cats. [ 16 ] Death feigning may also play a role in reproduction, for example, in the nursery web spider , the male sometimes feigns death to avoid getting eaten by females during mating. [ 17 ]
A feigned retreat is a military tactic, a type of feint, whereby a military force pretends to withdraw or to have been routed, in order to lure an enemy into a position of vulnerability. [ 1 ] A feigned retreat is one of the more difficult tactics for a military force to undertake, and requires well-disciplined soldiers.
Tonic immobility can be induced in chickens through several means, including by gently restraining them on their side, stomach, or back for a short period of time, or by using chalk to draw a line on the ground away from the chicken's beak while restraining them with their head down. [47] [49] Chickens have been used in several studies to ...
By 1883 most French monarchists accepted the Count of Paris as head of royal house. [15] A minority of reactionaries, the so-called Blancs d'Espagne ("Spanish Whites"), continued to withhold support from the House of Orléans and chose instead Juan, Count of Montizon , the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, who also happened to be the ...
Tania Head had one of the most harrowing accounts from 9/11 and eventually became the president of a survivor's network, but the Spanish woman was ultimately proved to be a fraud and wasn't even ...
This is Trump on stage at a rally, pretending to perform a sex-act on a microphone. Trump appeared to make the gesture on stage at a rally in Milwaukee on November 1 (Fox News/YouTube)
Raising kids can be a trip. The journey is filled with laughter, tears, and at times, embarrassment.They have no filter. None whatsoever. Little humans will say or do whatever’s on their minds ...