Escape response, escape reaction, or escape behavior is a mechanism by which animals avoid potential predation. It consists of a rapid sequence of movements...

facilitates escape from sudden stimuli. It is found across many different species, throughout all stages of life. A variety of responses may occur depending...

Escape reflex, or escape behavior, is any kind of escape response found in an animal when it is presented with an unwanted stimulus. It is a simple reflectory...

behaviors while generating a fixed action pattern for escape swimming. The type of escape response depends on the region of the crayfish that is stimulated...

C-start escape response, which is generated by large neurons called Mauthner cells. Mauthner cells operate as a command center for the escape response and...

exposure and response prevention (ERP or ExRP) therapy, in which exposure is continued and the resolution to refrain from the escape response is maintained...

(1 February 2010). "Repeated exposure and handling effects on the escape response of fence lizards to encounters with invasive fire ants". Animal Behaviour...

Look up escape in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Escape or Escaping may refer to: Escape (1928 film), a German silent drama film Escape! (film), a 1930...

the swimmerets on the underside of their abdomens, although their escape response is typically repeated flicks with the tail, driving them backwards...

conditioning). An escape response occurs when an aversive stimulus is presented and the subject makes a response to remove or escape the stimulus. In the...

the behavior of cats trying to escape from home-made puzzle boxes. A cat could escape from the box by a simple response such as pulling a cord or pushing...

stimulus. Drugs that selectively suppress conditioned avoidance responses without affecting escape behavior are considered to have antipsychotic-like activity...

propelling itself rapidly forward. Functionally of this is a fast escape response, triggered most easily by a strong sound wave or pressure wave impinging...

inhibit parts of the innate immune response. A bacterium, Bordetella pertussis, is able to escape the immune response by inhibiting neutrophils and macrophages...

animals escape their enclosure and threaten zoo visitors and employees. Emergency response teams are responsible for the capture of escaped animals....

Science. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-444-62719-3. Bloom, S. (1975). "The motile escape response of a sessile prey: a sponge-scallop mutualism". Journal of Experimental...

the maze, they recalled the escape response they had been taught. Similarly, when Overton taught a rat the escape response under the control condition...

thereby propelling itself rapidly forward. Functionally this is a fast escape response, triggered most easily by a strong sound wave or pressure wave impinging...

extinguish avoidance response behaviors. See for example studies involving avoidance response. Conditioned avoidance response test Escape response Fight-or-flight...

highly adapted for both forward swimming and a backward (retrograde) escape response. Prawn is often used as a synonym of shrimp for penaeoidean and caridean...

noise is possibly distracting the fish, and thereby affecting the escape response and routine swimming of the coral fish. A study conducted on species...

semi-aquatic species, promoting the 'escape' from submergence by means of rapid elongation of stems or leaves. This escape response is particularly important in...

continuous displacements with some escape reactions (e.g. most calanoid copepods). Some copepods have extremely fast escape responses when a predator is sensed...

amphibians that are responsible for a very fast escape reflex (in the majority of animals – a so-called C-start response). The cells are also notable for their...

and squid have evolved the giant axon to improve the speed of their escape response. The increased radius of the squid axon decreases the internal resistance...

lion closing in for the kill, the stress response is activated as a means to escape its predator. The escape requires intense muscular effort, supported...

The Great Escape is a 1963 American epic war adventure film starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough and featuring James Donald, Charles...

fundamentally different from navigation or exploration, since response times must be rapid. Escape reactions are achieved by action potential-like phenomena...

that while urbanization level did not directly affect their escape behavior, escape responses of Odonata were delayed in areas with high human activity...

serratissima at least, only takes place after mechanical stimulation or as an escape response evoked by a predator. In 2005, a stalked crinoid was recorded pulling...