Propelled by sparks, cowboy's arms and legs thrash about, then go limp.
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Some thrash about, even biting through a few strands of metal mesh.
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The seizures could lead patients to thrash about wildly and even break bones, and was generally an "extremely unpleasant" experience, Sadowsky said.
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Sharks may cause politicians to thrash about, but Australians run about the same risk of being killed by a bee or wasp (see chart).
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Eventually, he managed to climb onto the port-side gunwale of the boat, where he remained while the shark continued to thrash about on the deck.
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While your friends play frisbee or thrash about in the waves, you're happiest sprawled out on a towel, propped up on your elbows, completely entranced by a book.
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If the target hits the dog or tries to harm the dog, it will only cause the dog to bite down harder and thrash about, making it even harder to escape.
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In "Monumental," that truism is illustrated by this Canadian dance company, whose members thrash about and cavort in black-and-white work attire, channeling both cogs in the capitalist machine and animals trying to escape their cage.
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And that makes Pierrot seasick. "I must be in a boat," he says. The whale again starts to thrash about. Pierrot discovers a little chest at his feet.
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Some caterpillars can evade predators by using a silk line and dropping off from branches when disturbed. Many species thrash about violently when disturbed to scare away potential predators. One species (Amorpha juglandis) even makes high pitched whistles that can scare away birds.
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All coral snakes are shy, secretive animals, typically nocturnal. They spend most of their time hiding in leaf litter, under logs. They can be seen crawling on the surface, after heavy rains, when the nighttime temperatures rise above . When grabbed suddenly, or sometimes just when touched, they may thrash about, swing around, and bite.
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Males use these appendages to clasp females during mating. The females thrash about when clasped, and inappropriately shaped male antennae are less likely to successfully hold on. Females are easily distinguished from female Conservancy fairy shrimp because of their pear-shaped rather than spindle- shaped brood pouches, which do not extend as far down the body. Female midvalley fairy shrimp more closely resemble female vernal pool fairy shrimp, which also have pear-shaped brood pouches.
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This distraction display commonly fools the females into behaving as if a nest has been discovered there and they rush to that site, leaving the male's real nest alone. Bowfin (Amia calva) males caring for their free-swimming fry exhibit a related distraction display when a potential fry-predator approaches; they move away and thrash about as if injured, drawing the predator's attention toward himself.Morris, D. (1990) Animal Watching: A Field Guide to Animal Behaviour. Jonathan Cape, London.
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First built in the UK in 1948, and followed by a series of increasingly large and powerful machines in the UK and US, all early machines proved subject to powerful instabilities in the plasma. Notable among them was the kink instability, which caused the pinched ring to thrash about and hit the walls of the container long before it reached the required temperatures. The concept was so simple, however, that herculean effort was expended to address these issues. This led to the "stabilized pinch" concept, which added external magnets to "give the plasma a backbone" while it compressed.
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BBC Radio 1's Steve Lamacq has described Fight Like Apes as a "great Misfit band" inhabiting "a lonely place out on the periphery of the indie rock world". At one show in June 2008, he witnessed them "thrash about on their guitars and keyboards and wotnot like it's some kind of pop exorcism" and saw them "rolling around the empty dancefloor playflighting ". Today FM presenter Alison Curtis has described them as "really talented... kind of rocky and metallic and their front girl is extremely watchable, almost going into Debbie Harry territory". The band's influences include B movies, computer games, kung-fu and wrestling.
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Lloyd devoted several studies to the possibility, often recounted but never previously accounted for under scientific conditions, that Utricularia can consume larger prey such as young tadpoles and mosquito larvae by catching them by the tail, and ingesting them bit by bit. Prior to Lloyd, several authors had reported this phenomenon and had attempted to explain it by positing that creatures caught by the tail repeatedly set off the trap as they thrash about in an attempt to escape—even as their tails are actively digested by the plant. Lloyd, however, demonstrated that the plant is quite capable of ingestion by stages without the need of multiple stimuli. The flower stem of the aquatic Utricularia inflata is held aloft by a rosette of floats.
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Dr. Kuroda, a celebrated neurosurgeon, expresses severe doubt when a patient named Tetsuro Mukoda is admitted, complaining of increasingly long dreams, although his assistant, Dr. Yamauchi, believes there may be some truth to Mukoda's complaints. Another patient at the hospital, Mami Takeshima, who was admitted for treatment for a benign tumour, begins experiencing a heightened fear of death, and has a harrowing encounter with Mukoda, who wanders the halls at night, too afraid to sleep. At first believing Mukoda's symptoms to be nothing more than hallucinations, Kuroda decides to admit him anyway, and studies his symptoms in detail. Using an EEG machine, Kuroda discovers that Mukoda briefly goes into rapid eye movement sleep, his brain waves and eyes thrash about wildly, only to suddenly stop; in that brief moment, he is in the depths of his condition.
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In Turkish, "deve" is the mainstream word for "camel", although no distinction is made between an adult camel and a baby, "debe- len-(mek)" is "to wallow, to thrash about, to welter, to struggle desperately", and "dev-in- (mek)" is "to move". Especially in the context of Islamic faith and eschatology, the word " دابة Daabbat or Daabbah >> Dabbe" is used as an abbreviation for " دابة ال ارض Daabbt al Ardh" or "Dabbetu'l Ard" or Dabbet-ul (sometimes Dabbe-t-ul) Arz or Ard. The word "Dabbe" appears in a number of verses of the Quran, although the Surat an-Naml (the Ants) in its Ayat 82 is the only one that refers to a particular event that will occur toward the Apocalypse: the Beast of the Earth. The following features of "Dabbe" have been suggested on the basis of interpretations of this ayat. 1\.
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