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The flehmen response (/ ˈ f l eɪ m ən /; from German flehmen, to bare the upper teeth, and Upper Saxon German flemmen, to look spiteful), also called the flehmen position, flehmen reaction, flehmen grimace, flehming, or flehmening, is a behavior in which an animal curls back its upper lip exposing its front teeth, inhales with the nostrils usually closed, and then often holds this position ...
Okay, this is reading like someone conducted a study and compared the Flehmen rates of females (I assume the rates at which the females made a flehmen response) to each other and found that when the flehmen rate of one female was similar to that of another, it was a strong indicator the two females would give birth around the same time, but ...
The EFRC is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization and the second-largest big cat rescue in the United States, spanning over 200 acres (0.81 km 2). [1] [2] Abused, disabled, and otherwise homeless wild cats such as Lions, tigers, leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, Canada lynx, ocelots, Geoffroy's cat, and an Asian leopard cat have taken refuge in this organization.
The Indianapolis Zoo is situated within White River State Park, about 1 mi (1.6 km) west of Monument Circle on the eastern edge of the Near Westside neighborhood area. . The White River hugs the zoo's northern and eastern boundaries, physically separating the facility from downtown Indianapo
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Police showed up at William Neal's home in the 1900 block of Maple Street about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday in response to a possible domestic battery for which police said they had ...
The giraffe's head and neck are held up by large muscles and a nuchal ligament, which are anchored by long thoracic vertebrae spines, giving them a hump. [17] [63] [36] Adult male reticulated giraffe feeding high on an acacia, in Kenya. The giraffe's neck vertebrae have ball and socket joints.
The Kordofan giraffe (Giraffa antiquorum [2] or Giraffa camelopardalis antiquorum) is a species or subspecies of giraffe found in northern Cameroon, southern Chad, the Central African Republic, and possibly western Sudan. [3] They usually live in tree savannas, bush savannas and thorn savannas. [4]
However, recent genetic research has shown that the populations from northern Cameroon and southern Chad actually are the Kordofan giraffe (G. c. antiquorum). [5] Therefore, the giraffes that remain in Waza National Park (Cameroon) belong to the Kordofan giraffe, while the only remaining viable population of the West African giraffe is in Niger ...