Sentence examples for submissive posture from inspiring English sources

A female may periodically flick her wings after being chased, and enter a submissive posture with breast low, wings open, feathers fluffed, and tail lifted upward (Kepler 1972).

As he encourages his audience to pretend to be feminists but to "keep her unconfident", he adopts a crouching, pornographically submissive posture.

These silent males adopt a submissive posture, sit near resident males and make no attempt to displace them.

We have been made to intimately understand the consequences of our silence, and refuse to ever return to a submissive posture again.

Several such incidents have been observed in which the subordinate tiger yielded defeat by rolling onto its back and showing its belly in a submissive posture.

So the criticized person may respond by slinking away, playing dead in a submissive posture, or taking on the accuser by fighting back.

Females normally retreat from the bowing display and exhibit submissive postures but if receptive sink to the ground with lowered wings and tail.

Although Continental Europe has moved to clamp down on indecent and offensive advertising, especially spots that portray women in overly submissive postures, nudity is still much more accepted on the Continent, Mr. Campbell said.

Animals that are exposed to maternal separation in the early postnatal period followed by repeated social defeat in adulthood exhibit passive coping, displaying submissive postures and behavior [ 68].

The behaviours were grouped into the following behaviour classes: non-aggressive behaviours (e.g. swimming), submissive behaviours (escape from an aggressive opponent or submission postures), aggressive displays and symmetrical high aggression (biting or chasing each other in a circle interrupted by mouth-fighting).

In every observation session, the group was observed continuously for 60 min and the frequency of submissive behaviours (escape from an aggressive opponent or submission postures without dark colouration), dominant behaviours (aggressive displays or nest-digging) and courtship displays were recorded for each male.