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Meaning of tanatosis



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

tanatosis
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It is a mechanism of defense of some animals, which in the face of danger pretend to be dead. It is highly applied by frogs, snakes, fish, small birds and insects. Among mammals, the possum does. Some cyclide fish do, but to catch their prey.

  



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felipe lorenzo del rio

From Greek thánatos, death. Mechanism of defense of some animals that are made dead in the face of some danger.

  










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