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.
After the Tsunami attack in Asia on Sunday the 26th of December 2004 people faced the threat of water borne diseases linked to flooding, like Shigellosis, Cholera, Hepatitis A, Leptospirosis, Typhoid Fever, Malaria and Dengue fever.