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Mimic

An imitation that sends a false signal.
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'Intuitively, you would expect that there would be fewer wing patterns where species are mimicking each other, but we see exactly the opposite, which has been an evolutionary mystery,' said Hoyal Cuthill.
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Abdominal Splenosis Mimicking Peritoneal Metastasis in Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen PET/CT, Confirmed With Selective Spleen SPECT/CT.
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While this may be decades away, there is also work being done on copying the sonar and echolocation system used by bats to enable blind persons to 'see' using canes mimicking the bats' abilities.
Intelligent design
. @HHShkMohd meets Mahra Al Shehi, the cute little girl who attracted his attention for mimicking his speech pic.twitter.com/hlyx263AOW - Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) October 28, 2016
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The researchers are not yet fully sure how the shell plays a role in improving mimicking abilities.
Secrets Of The Talking Parrots
reported a case of thrombosed, fenestrated basilar artery mimicking an aneurysm of the vertebrobasilar junction.5 Since then, stumps have been reported in several locations.2,3,6 In early studies, stumps in the posterior circulation were often misinterpreted by neuro- surgeons as aneurysms on the basis of the imaging findings.
Occluded middle cerebral artery vascular stump mimicking aneurysm: Case report and review of literature
Big crowds turned out to see the Glasgowborn star who had become a household name mimicking Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the then new Tory leader.
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Nelson, "Polymorphism in an ant mimicking jumping spider," Journal of Arachnology, vol.
Ant-mimicking spiders: strategies for living with social insects
This is the first systematically studied case of an elephant mimicking human speech, says bioacoustician Angela Stoeger at the University of Vienna.
Elephant mimics Korean words: trunk motion lets animal approximate human speech
Based on these observations, the researchers suggested that the parrots may have evolved their abilities as mimics so they could 'begin a conversation' with a specific individual by mimicking their call.
Why parrots mimic others' sounds
Considering that mimicry constitutes a mirroring effect because it involves someone else mimicking our own behaviors, I surmised that mimicry should, therefore, be associated with increased self-consciousness.
The mimicker is a mirror of myself: impact of mimicking on self-consciousness and social anxiety
The disconnect occurs because people read others' emotions partly by mimicking their facial expressions.
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