Sexual imprinting is the process by which a young animal learns the characteristics of a desirable mate. For example, male zebra finches appear to prefer mates with the appearance of the female bird that rears them, rather than that of the birth parent when they are different.t was first used to describe situations in which an animal or person learns the characteristics of some stimulus, which is therefore said to be imprinted onto the subject. Imprinting is hypothesized to have a critical period.
The tallest (recorded) tsunami was the Lituya bay(Alaska, USA) mega-tsunami in 1958, with a wave run-up of 524 m. It was a local tsunami generated by an earthquake that sent a lot of rock and ice falling into a narrow inlet of the bay. 1. Other mega-tsunamis - Megatsunami.
Governments affected by the disaster are now working to build a tsunami early warning system. The Boxing Day sea surge was triggered when an earthquake caused the sea floor to jolt vertically by about 10m (33ft), which displaced hundreds of cubic kilometres of water.The resulting waves travelled at speeds of up to 800km/h (497mph). The tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in 13 countries.his may be the worst natural disaster in recent history, he added. E-mail this story to a friend. 2004: Thousands die in Asian tsunami Massive sea surges triggered by an earthquake under the Indian Ocean have killed over 10,000 people in southern Asia, with many more feared dead.