Self-anointing in animals, sometimes called anointing or anting, is a behaviour whereby a non-human animal smears odoriferous substances over themselves...

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When such animals view their reflection (mirror test), they recognize themselves and exhibit self-consciousness. Notably, humans evolved in a quite different...

Zoopharmacognosy is a behaviour in which non-human animals self-medicate by selecting and ingesting or topically applying plants, soils and insects with...

Self-denial (related but different from self-abnegation or self-sacrifice) is an act of letting go of the self as with altruistic abstinence – the willingness...

faculty member of the Animal Behavior Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis. His research focused on ground squirrels, in particular, their...

against animals of other species) using agonistic behaviors or (less commonly) real physical aggression. Animals that actively defend territories in this...

animals. An animal may perform the flehmen response when investigating sites of particular interest, or perhaps (more generally) odors or tastes. In horses...

action is self-anointing where the organism produces thick foamy saliva and proceeds to cover its spines with the saliva. This could be in response to...

often performed with scent marking and self-anointing, and is typically used by animals to scent mark an object in their surroundings. This marking can...

Generally, an act of self-sacrifice conforms to the rule that it does not serve the person’s best self-interest, and will leave the person in a worse situation...

commensal animals. Notable examples include Nepenthes jamban, whose specific name is the Indonesian word for toilet. Manure is organic matter, mostly animal feces...

vacant. Like all hedgehogs, these animals go through a process called self-anointing. They spread their own saliva on their spines and fur after tasting...

react in a way that indicates an intermediate state between seeing the mirror as another individual and recognizing the image as self. Most animals react...

particularly strong smell, it will sometimes do what is referred to as self-anointing. It creates a large amount of foam by combining the aromatic substance...

ordinances have been taught in many traditional Mennonite churches, which include "baptism, communion, footwashing, marriage, anointing with oil, the holy kiss...

religious ecstasy in these movements has been characterized by increasingly unusual behaviors that are understood by adherents to be the anointing of the Holy...

temples regularly, where they usually participate in the endowment, sealing, washing and anointing, and other ordinances, most often by proxy for the...

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are similar in appearance to hedgehogs but from a different line of evolutionary descent, may also have separately evolved self-anointing behaviour.[citation...

a monarch is anointed, the Dean of Westminster first pours holy anointing oil from an ampulla into a spoon. The Ampulla, 20.5 cm (8 in) tall and weighing...

is purified. Anointing with oil (Ukugcotshwa ngamafutha): At the coronation of King Misuzulu, the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town anointed the king with...

president without her participating as a candidate in a primary election, describing the process as "anointing" Harris as the nominee without a public vote...

"for what can you expect in a war," said he, "from a man who is not able to walk?" Those who had servants to bathe and anoint them were ridiculed by Scipio...

are known as ghatasthapana and pranapratistha respectively. Adhivasa: Anointing ritual wherein symbolic offerings are made to Durga, with each item representing...

painted the fruit, animals, silver plate and armour in his own work. Jan Wildens, another brother-in-law, assisted with the landscapes in many of his works...

Bible, "In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself...

ground. Another far more curious form of territory marking is through the anointing of their foreheads and horns with secretions from glands near their eyes...

everything, are violated one after another, like animals. Some [of their attackers] shamelessly place virgins in front of their own mothers and force them to...