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 recognise 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...

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

incense burner, or a manger. The animal is always in profile on Indus seals, but the theory that it represents animals with two horns, one hiding the other...

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

rock ptarmigan is used in Urumiit, which is a delicacy in some Inuit cuisine. Several beverages are made using the feces of animals, including but not limited...

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...

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...

mouth and the palate, animals can gather chemical "messages". These scents tell an animal about other members of their species in some of the following...

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...

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...

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

parts of animals and humans; sacrifice children; raise the dead; can control the natural world; can shapeshift themselves and others into animals; and invoke...

produces change in the Yoruba religion. It is believed to be given by Olodumare to everything — gods, ancestors, spirits, humans, animals, plants, rocks...

Saul's anointing and death, changes in the portrayal of Saul from positive to negative following David's introduction, and etymological discrepancies in the...

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...

and the anointing oil placed within a hidden chamber which had been built by Solomon. The Seder Olam Rabbah holds that Solomon's reign was not in 1000 BCE...

"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...

rebirth. In its epistemological and psychological senses, moksha is freedom from ignorance: self-realization, self-actualization and self-knowledge. In Hindu...

land" was not fully fulfilled until a king was anointed by a prophet on behalf of God. The effect of anointing was seen to be that the monarch became inviolable...

moksha (liberation) in the 6th century BCE, although the year varies by sect. Mahavira taught attainment of samyak darshan or self realization through...

the anointing of Elijah and was a messenger heralding the second coming of Christ. Branham did not directly claim to be the end-time messenger in either...

who was "anointed with the Invisible Spirit's 'Christhood'". According to Turner, this "same anointing [was] received by the Barbeloites in their baptismal...

be observed in ritual. The head-anointing ritual of abhiseka is of importance in three of these distinct traditions, excluding Sikhism (in Buddhism it...

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and alcohol. Jains oppose any slaughter of animals. Muslims ritually perform large scale slaughter of animals for meat, such as on the festival of Eid al-Adha...