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.
Possibly the most dangerous tsunami occurred in Alaska, in which the highest known tsunami was recorded. Lituya Bay is a large inlet on the coast of Alaska.sunamis are not just large ocean waves. Unlike a regular wave, which washes in and out in a few seconds, a tsunami wave is a surge of water that keeps coming in for as much a â¦ s 15 minutes. People caught in the wave can be swept away and drowned or pummeled by debris.