Its escape response was induced by gentle touching of its tail with a fine stainless steel probe.
Blood was obtained by applying a gentle pressure to the tail-tip, with a blood glucose monitoring system (glucometer and testing strips) (OneTouch Ultra 2, Lifescan, Inc., Milpitas, CA).
Crocodilians generally cruise slowly on the surface or underwater with gentle sinuous movements of the tail, but when pursued or when chasing prey they can move rapidly.
You can give your cat slow gentle strokes along her back, head to tail.
Tail feathers (rectrices, undertail coverts or upper tail coverts) collected by gentle pulling were placed in individual plastic bags.
Evidence of the strength of the pair bond is shown by grooming, huddling together with their tails twined, nuzzling, and gentle grasping.
Always be gentle and never touch or grab its tail or it will detach.
If you have to pick a snake up only by its tail, get a firm, but gentle grasp and hold it as far as possible from your body.
Blood samples were collected by cutting into the soft tissue of the distal 2-mm portion of the mice's sterilized tails using a scalpel and gentle squeezing to obtain two or more drops of blood.
— It was envisioned as a striking centerpiece of this city's revitalized waterfront, an eight-foot-high blackened sculpture of an upright whale's tail from which water gushes in a gentle waterfall that allows children to frolic underneath.
