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.
February 27th, 2012 | Default |. Most tsunamis are caused by underwater earthquakes but not all underwater earthquakes cause tsunamis. In order for the underwater earthquake to cause a tsunami, the earthquake must rank at 6.75 or higher on the richter scale.The amount of smaller tsunamis that occur is unknown because the effects usually are not seen and/or felt.However when it comes to the larger tsunamis, there are only about six per century. 90% of which occur in the Pacific Ocean.Although recently the numbers have been going up, catastrophic tsunamis have been occurring one to two times within a decade.owever when it comes to the larger tsunamis, there are only about six per century. 90% of which occur in the Pacific Ocean. Although recently the numbers have been going up, catastrophic tsunamis have been occurring one to two times within a decade.