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A Tale of Tails
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A Tale of Tails

Dominique Potvin
Lateral Magazine, Vol.21 January 2019(30)
2019
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http://www.lateralmag.com/columns/ethograms/a-tale-of-tailsView
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Abstract

Animal behaviour
When faced with a threat, animals often behave predictably, with stereotypical responses such as fleeing, fighting or freezing. Humans, too, will often react in a similar way when threatened: English idioms that describe these reactions, like “frozen like a deer in the headlights”, reflect their familiarity. Imagine, however, if you could distract a potential predator or other threat by detaching a limb, knowing it would eventually grow back?

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