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.
This depends on what is meant by biggest.   Largest/highest tsunami The largest tsunami ever recorded occurred on 9 July 1958 in Lituya Bay, Alaska.An earthquake measuri â¦ ng 8.3 on the Richter scale shook loose around 40 million cubic yards of dirt and glacier from a mountainside at the head of the Bay, resulting in a tsunami, or series of waves.he Sumatra-Andaman earthquake on 26 December 2004 resulted in an earthquake with the magnitude of 9.3 occurring on the ocean floor near the west coast of Sumatra, perhaps the most devastating tsunami ever recorded, the height of the wave was only about 100 feet, far from the largest.