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Such up-to-date warning of an approaching danger, detected from far away, gives the system operator extra time to initiate protective measures that counteract the danger, perhaps saving lives.
Stimulation, however, can also signal an event to follow; then it has meaning only as part of the sequence of which it is the first term: bell announcing dinner, a road sign, or an approaching danger.
Finally, we tested theoretically whether the animal could succeed in avoiding an approaching danger with this behavioral strategy or not.
This is why the frog appeared to turn toward, rather than away from, an approaching danger in Fig. 1.
To avoid an approaching danger, the frog jumps in various directions depending on the stimulus location and the position of barrier objects around the animal.
However, due to the time required to turn through large angles, frogs should jump later when avoiding an approaching danger in a backward rather than forward escape behavior.
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The silence of the jungle was broken by the distant call of the sambar deer - a warning for approaching danger; the forest naturalist raised his eyebrows and we took the cue to become silent.
If the looming bias is an adaptive trait that has evolved as a protection mechanism against approaching danger, then we might expect listeners to perceive the speed of looming sounds as faster than that of equivalent receding sounds.
The main "shark" theme, a simple alternating pattern of two notes variously identified as "E and F" or "F and F sharp" —became a classic piece of suspense music, synonymous with approaching danger (see leading-tone).
But not everyone has a place to run to in the face of approaching danger.
Over the years, Manser's research – recording meerkat calls, studying their acoustic structure, and observing the reaction to carefully-controlled playbacks – has revealed how a meerkat tells the rest of the group about approaching danger.
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