Veterinary Medicine & Animal Behavior

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6 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Veterinary Medicine & Animal Behavior. They span 8 subdomains — sort by that column to group them, or click any subdomain to filter to it.

Abstraction	Subdomain	Description
Cervical dislocation	Veterinary EuthanasiaLaboratory Animal Science	Cervical dislocation is a common method of animal euthanasia.
Display behavior	EthologyBehavioral EcologyAnimal Communication	A stereotyped, ritualized animal behavior that produces a perceptible signal interpreted by another organism in a courtship, territorial, threat, submission, recognition, or other social context.
Escape reflex	Animal Behavior	A rapid sensorimotor response that detects a threat-like stimulus and initiates stereotyped movement away from it.
Illegitimate receiver	Animal Communication	An unintended organism that intercepts another organism’s communication signal and gains information that can alter fitness.
Placing reflexes	Veterinary Neurology	Placing reflexes denotes tests in veterinary medicine in veterinary neurology.
Sign Stimulus	Classical Ethology	Fixed action patterns are said to be produced by the innate releasing mechanism, a "hard-wired" neural network, in response to a sign/key stimulus or releaser.