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  2. Deception in animals - Wikipedia

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    In automimicry, one body part of an animal mimics another. This may help and animal survive an attack, or help predators to appear innocuous. Examples include many moth, butterfly, and fish species that have "eye-spots". These are large dark markings that help prey escape by causing predators to attack a false target.

  3. The 17 Most Common Pet Health Issues Will Set You Back This Much

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    Birds. Respiratory Problems: Birds, particularly parrots and cockatiels, are prone to respiratory issues such as Aspergillosis, a fungal infection of the airways. Costs for treatment can vary ...

  4. List of deadliest animals to humans - Wikipedia

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    The 25 Most Dangerous Animals In The World, List 25; The Most Dangerous Animals in the World, Animal Danger; Top 10 Most Dangerous Animals In The World, Conservation Institute; Schistosomiasis: Still a Cause of Significant Morbidity and Mortality, National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine

  5. Wild animal suffering - Wikipedia

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    Predation has been described as the act of one animal capturing and killing another animal to consume part or all of their body. [52] Jeff McMahan, a moral philosopher, asserts: "Wherever there is animal life, predators are stalking, chasing, capturing, killing, and devouring their prey. Agonized suffering and violent death are ubiquitous and ...

  6. These Dangerous Dog Breeds Cause the Most Attacks - AOL

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    Even the tiniest pet dogs can trace their ancestry back to wolves and, even though they are domesticated, dogs still have some of their wild animal traits. Dogs bite around 4 million people each ...

  7. Aposematism - Wikipedia

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    Pitohuis, red and black birds whose toxic feathers and skin apparently comes from the poisonous beetles they ingest, could be included. [17] It has been proposed that aposematism played a role in human evolution, body odour carrying a warning to predators of large hominins able to defend themselves with weapons. [18]

  8. Rabies in animals - Wikipedia

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    In the laboratory it has been found that birds can be infected, as well as cell cultures from birds, reptiles and insects. [1] The brains of animals with rabies deteriorate. As a result, they tend to behave bizarrely and often aggressively, increasing the chances that they will bite another animal or a person and transmit the disease.

  9. Anti-predator adaptation - Wikipedia

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    Water striders are insects that live on the surface of fresh water, and are attacked from beneath by predatory fish. Experiments varying the group size of the water striders showed that the attack rate per individual water strider decreases as group size increases. [42] In a group, prey seek central positions in order to reduce their domain of ...