Youtube description:- "Watch these weird and wonderful images of animal hypnosis. When in danger, animals will often fall into a trance-like state to avoid capture"
siftbotsays...

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Monday, November 21st, 2011 12:14pm PST - promote requested by Boise_Lib.

grintersays...

The behavior is common in fishes (especially cartilaginous fishes, but also teleosts); so we might expect to see it in many and diverse tetrapod lineages (tetrapods are nested within the paraphylectic group of fishes). Still, while it has been shown in rabbits, guinea pigs, and a few other, it appears to be less common in mammals. Attempts at explaining this range from inhibitory effects of the relatively well developed cortex in mammals to differing circulatory physiology.
For more info, look up "tonic immobility".>> ^hpqp:

They're all dinosaurs. I wonder if this is feasible on mammals.

Stusays...

That's why I asked if they go poof. I can't find it anywhere but I know I saw it. Maybe it's deja vu, or maybe I'm a time traveler with partial amnesia. >> ^Barseps:

>> ^Stu:
do videos disappear from here after a while? I remember seeing this a while ago.

Please share the link & I'll "Isdupe" it.

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