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Animal verbs
Words describing actions by animals.
Industry: Zoology
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Animal verbs
Still-hunting
Zoology; Animal verbs
Moving slowly through cover trying to spot rabbits, squirrels or other small game. The object is to use your eyes more than your feet. You should spend more time standing still than walking.
Tail slapping
Zoology; Animal verbs
Dolphins can be seen slapping their tails forcibly on the surface of the water.
Call matching
Zoology; Animal verbs
A vocalisation in birds characterised by the male and female of a pair duplicating the other's flight call. Call matching is often a behaviour exhibited by members of the finch family.
Functional response
Zoology; Animal verbs
Change in the rate of exploitation of prey by an individual predator as a result of a change in prey density.
Flight birds
Zoology; Animal verbs
Migratory woodcock as opposed to locally hatched "residents". The woodcock is the only migratory upland gamebird other than the dove.
