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Pages in category "Metaphors referring to animals" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Pica also affects domesticated animals. While drugs like Prozac are often able to diminish troublesome behaviors in pet dogs, they don't seem to help with this eating disorder. The following story about Bumbley, a wire fox terrier who appeared on the TV show 20/20 as a result of his eating disorder, is taken from a book by Dr. Nicholas Dodman: [12]
Pica; eating materials other than normal food. [26] Polydipsia; excessive drinking. [27] Savaging; overt aggression directed to newborn offspring by a mother animal, often including cannibalistic infanticide. [28] Self-cannibalism (autophagy, autosarcophagy); an animal eating itself. [29] [30] Self-injury; an animal injuring its own body ...
Animal epithets may be pejorative, of negative character, or positive, indicating praise. Animal similes and metaphors have been used since classical times, for example by Homer and Virgil, to heighten effects in literature, and to sum up complex concepts concisely. Surnames that name animals are found in different countries.
Oligophagy is a term for intermediate degrees of selectivity, referring to animals that eat a relatively small range of foods, either because of preference or necessity. [2] Another classification refers to the specific food animals specialize in eating, such as: Carnivore: the eating of animals Araneophagy: eating spiders; Avivore: eating birds
Geophagia is widespread in the animal kingdom. Galen, the Greek philosopher and physician, was the first to record the use of clay by sick or injured animals in the second century AD. This type of geophagia has been documented in "many species of mammals, birds, reptiles, butterflies and isopods, especially among herbivores".
As the disorder progresses, behavior is modified in order to satisfy the urge for the food. These behavioral changes can result in binge eating disorder, obesity, and bulimia nervosa. A study in Physiology & Behavior by Parylak et al. suggests that animal models given free access to food become more emotionally withdrawn once the food is ...
Hence the snake eating its tail is an accepted image or metaphor in the autopoietic calculus for self-reference, [30] or self-indication, the logical processual notation for analysing and explaining self-producing autonomous systems and "the riddle of the living", developed by Francisco Varela. Reichel describes this as: