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| 37 | 142 | The View more quotes about response">response disposition of lying down, apparently selected for in some varieties of tabuk, tends to be useful in an environment in which high grass is plentiful and one of the most common predators depends primarily on vision to detect and locate its prey. |
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| 37 | 139 | Some varieties of prairie tabuk, interestingly, when sensing danger, tend to lie down. |
| 37 | 140 | This is counterinstinctual for most varieties of tabuk, which, when sensing danger, tend to freeze, in a tense, standing position and then, if alarmed further, tend to scurry away, depending on their agility and speed to escape predators. |
| 37 | 141 | The standing position, of course, as is the case with bipedalian creatures, tends to increase their scanning range. |
| 37 | 142 | The response disposition of lying down, apparently selected for in some varieties of tabuk, tends to be useful in an environment in which high grass is plentiful and one of the most common predators depends primarily on vision to detect and locate its prey. |
| 37 | 143 | This predator, as would be expected, normally attacks from a direction in which its shadow does not precede it. |
| 37 | 144 | Any tabuk, of course, if it is sufficiently alarmed, will bound away. |
| 37 | 145 | It can attain short-term speeds of from eighty to ninety pasangs an Ahn. |