** Tonic immobility ( playing dead )

Tonic immobility is a natural state of paralysis that animals enter, in most cases when presented with a threat.

Tonic immobility also can be somewhat effective on anole lizards, and a loose study was done with tonic immobility with the rabbit.

Tonic immobility plays a role in survival if it helps a hunted animal to blend in with its surroundings.

Tonic immobility has been used to show that hens in cages are more fearful than those in pens, hens on the top tier of tiered battery cages are more fearful than those on the lower levels, hens carried by hand are more than hens carried on a mechanical conveyor, and hens undergoing longer transportation times are more fearful than those undergoing transport of a shorter duration.

Tonic immobility as a scientific tool has also been used with mice, gerbils, guinea pigs, rats, rabbits and pigs.

* Tonic immobility

This scene has been recreated many times ; for instance, in the Bugs Bunny cartoon Hare Tonic, the Mickey Mouse cartoon Lonesome Ghosts, in The Three Stooges short Idle Roomers ( 1944 ), in The Pink Panther ( 1963 ), in the TV series Gilligan's Island (" Gilligan vs. Gilligan ", 1966 ), in the film Big Business ( 1988 ), The X-Files (" Dreamland ") and Family Guy (" Road to Germany ").

Otternic Pond ( locally called " Tonic Pond "), located between Hudson Center and Hudson Village, has a public boat landing ( Claveau Landing ) that can be accessed off Highland Street.

It turns out that Mammy Yokum's Yokumberry Tonic, which she makes from the one-of-a-kind Yokumberry tree growing outside her home, is what has made Abner so strong and handsome.

He is a consultant with political and public relations consultancy Halogen Communications Ltd, as well as J. Chandler & Co., distributor of Buckfast Tonic Wine and has written a number of books including Scotland First: Truth and Consequences ( 2004 ), Global Scots: Voices from Afar ( with Kenny MacAskill ) ( 2006 ) ( published in the UK as Global Scots: Making It in the Modern World ), Wherever the Saltire Flies ( with Kenny MacAskill ) ( 2006 ) and Scotland: The Road Divides ( with Tom Brown ) ( 2007 ).

She has also curated at Tonic, DJed in Paris, and most recently at John Zorn's The Stone in December 2008.

Forest Gate has various associations with music and acting: it was for many years the home of the Tonic Sol-fa College of John Curwen, which taught large numbers of people to play music without learning conventional notation.

Tonic is an American rock band that has earned two Grammy nominations to date.

Curwen also began publishing, and brought out a periodical called the Tonic Sol-fa Reporter and Magazine of Vocal Music for the People, and in his later life was occupied in directing the spreading organization of his system.

Some specialty programs, including The Vinyl Cafe, Vinyl Tap and one edition each of the nightly Tonic and Canada Live, also air on CBC Radio One in different time slots.

" sequence is interrupted by Daffy and Elmer, then Bugs, also doing this at the end of Baseball Bugs and Hare Tonic, comes in and delivers the closing line, " That's All Folks !".

The Hangovers have an active network of alumni, who return to Cornell in large numbers for Fall Tonic and also join the current members to sing at the Treman Concert every year during Cornell's Reunions Weekend.

In addition to his Kidney & Liver Cure, Warner also introduced a Safe Nervine, Safe Diabetes Cure, Safe Tonic, Safe Tonic Bitters, Safe Bitters, Safe Rheumatic Cure, Safe Pills, and later his Tippecanoe Bitters.

Several other groups, such as US rock band Tonic, have also covered it.

North Fremantle is also home to the famous night bar called Mojos, Railway Hotel, Tonic Cafe, as well as the North Fremantle Bowling Club a local community run club that supports local live music, holds private functions and community events.

Tonic also performed a cover of the song " Second Hand News " for the album " Legacy: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours.

He took small roles in three short silent comedies starring his wife Elsa Lanchester, Daydreams, Blue Bottles and The Tonic ( all 1928 ) which had been specially written for her by H. G. Wells.

Interest in the band was kindled in the late 1990s when Alive / Total Energy Records released a studio recording of the then-unheard song " Electrophonic Tonic ", the song that was to have been the B-side of " City Slang ".

Tonic water is often used as a drink mixer for cocktails, especially those made with gin or vodka ( for example, a gin and tonic ).

The Fall concert is named Fall Tonic, a title resurrected in and used since 1980 in homage to the Sherwoods, who preceded the Hangovers as a Glee Club subset and had an annual autumn concert of the same title.

Among the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a unique system of notation called Tonic Sol-fa is used to transmit hymns.

Tonic took a break from constant touring and recording, time which Hart used to, "... make sure the next record would be coming from fresh eyes and ears " after he moved to a new home in Nashville, Tennessee.

One Dialogue contains a story about a genie ( from the Arabic " Djinn ") and various " tonics " ( of both the liquid and musical varieties ), which is titled " Djinn and Tonic ".

Tonic water ( or Indian tonic water ) is a carbonated soft drink, in which quinine is dissolved.

The monastery's most successful product is Buckfast Tonic Wine, a strong tonic wine which the monks began making ( to a French recipe ) in the 1890s.

Wells ( Bluebottles, Daydreams and The Tonic ) in which Laughton made brief appearances.

However, Ford introduced an entry-level model called the Tonic, a rebadged version of the last version of KF hatchack Mazda 323 ( VI gen ), which was sold until 2003.

From this developed a design and production factory that specialised in the manufacture of airborne and ground equipment for target aircraft and missile fields including the Tonic towed target, which can be carried and streamed by a Jindivik 3A.

In March 2007, Reid played with Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and G. Calvin Weston at Tonic in NYC, and Tritone in Philadelphia, which led them to record as Free Form Funky Freqs with the title of the recording called Urban Mythology Volume 1.

It was originally sold under the name Vim Tonic, which Nichols shortened to Vimto in 1912.

In British India, it was mixed with the tonic water consumed for the anti-malarial properties of quinine, which lead to the creation of the Gin and Tonic.

His compositions, which remained popular for some years after his death in 1884, consisted mainly of ballads ( such as his musical adaptation of Charles Kingsley's poem, " Three Fishers "); but his importance in the history of music is owing to his exertion in popularizing musical education, and his persistent opposition to the Tonic sol-fa system, which had a success he could not foresee.

While it cannot be doubted that Hullah would have won more success if he had not opposed the Tonic Sol-Fa movement so strenuously, it must be confessed that his work was of great value, for he kept constantly in view unimpressed upon all who followed him or learnt from him the supreme necessity of maintaining the artistic standard of the music taught and studied, and of not allowing trumpery compositions to usurp the place of good music on account of the greater ease with which they could be read.

He contributed many notable storylines for all three of them, including Freleng's Hare Do ( 1949 ), Bad Ol ' Putty Tat ( 1949 ), Bunker Hill Bunny ( 1950 ) and Big House Bunny ( 1950 ); Jones ' Hare Tonic ( 1945, an early success for both of them ) and Broom-Stick Bunny ( 1956 ); and McKimson's Hillbilly Hare ( 1950 ), Lovelorn Leghorn ( 1951 ) and Cat-Tails for Two ( 1953 ), the last of which was Speedy Gonzales ' first appearance.

It wasn't until late 2008 Tonic became active again, embarking on a tour and releasing a greatest-hits compilation, all of which served as a prelude to their fourth studio album, 2010's Tonic.

In 2000, Tonic allowed their song " Mean To Me " from their album Sugar to be released as a single from the soundtrack album for the Warner Bros. film Gossip, which was directed by Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim.