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.
While Japan may have the longest recorded history of tsunamis, the sheer destruction caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami event mark it as the most devastating of its kind in modern times. Video: 2004 Boing Day Tsunami. The earthquake that generated the great Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 7:59 am local time on Sunday, 26 December 2004. It was caused by subduction with an epicentre off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.