** 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 has also been used to describe the paralysis which often immobilizes animals, such as rodents or birds, when they feel threatened by a predator.

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

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.

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.

On the album Everything You Know Is Wrong by the comedy troupe The Firesign Theatre, the recording's narrator plays a wire recording of a medicine show featuring a " Dr. Firesign " promoting " Chief Dancing Knockout's Pyramid Pushover Paste " and " Don Bruhaha's Inca Hell-Oil Tonic ".

Officially active again, Tonic had already played their first show together in many years on September 16, 2008 at a venue in Antioch, Illinois.

Tonic neurons are the opposite and only fire an action potential when movement occurs.

There are some notable bars in Blackrock, such as Jack O ' Rourkes, O ' Donohues, Sheehans, Tonic and The Wicked Wolf.

While the reflexes above are stimulated mechanically, the term H-reflex refers to the analogous reflex stimulated electrically, and Tonic vibration reflex for those stimulated to vibration.

The five sodas are titled Elixir of Purity ( Cream Soda ), Necromancer's Tonic ( Root Beer ), Beast Brew ( Green Apple ), Illusion Infusion ( Blue Bubblegum ), and Purifying Fire water ( Fruit Punch ).

Tonic syllables are bimoraic and are therefore composed of either a long vowel in an open syllable ( beve ) or a short vowel in a closed syllable ( bevve ).

Umeshu on the Rocks ( pronounced umeshu rokku ), Umeshu Sour ( pronounced umeshu sawa ), Umeshu Tonic ( with 2 / 3 tonic water ), Umeshu Soda ( with 2 / 3 carbonated water ) and the Flaming Plum cocktail are popular.

Music critic Shawn M. Haney said of the album that, " The record as a whole is full of the heavy, distortion-laden Tonic sound, and guitars that make them who they are.

Their album Tonic is an example of these more contemporary acoustic performances.

D ' Indy ( 1903, p. 117 ), who analyses the chord as on IV after Riemann's transcendent principle ( as phrased by Serge Gut: " the most classic succession in the world: Tonic, Subdominant, Dominant " ( 1981, p. 150 )) and rejects the idea of an added " lowered seventh ", eliminates, " all artificial, dissonant notes, arising solely from the melodic motion of the voices, and therefore foreign to the chord ," finding that the Tristan chord is " no more than a subdominant in the key of A, collapsed in upon itself melodically, the harmonic progression represented thus:

99X spent the end of the 1990s adding more " light " alternative fare, such as Tonic and Matchbox Twenty.

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.

Earning a reputation as a " relentlessly gigging " band, Tonic played over 300 shows in less than two years during the mid-to-late 1990s.

A Tonic for the Troops was released in the U. S. on Columbia in February 1979, with two tracks from The Boomtown Rats substituted for tracks on the UK version.

The General is planning to simply have Fleagle use his eye on Abner, get the formula for Yokumberry Tonic, and then order Abner to commit suicide.

In addition she angered the monks of Buckfast Abbey when she called on them to stop selling Buckfast Tonic Wine in Scotland.

Photo of an empty bottle of Buckfast Tonic Wine in a park in GlasgowA Buckfast Wine tanker on the A38 road | A38 in Devon.

Curwen taught himself to sight-read based on Glover's Norwich Sol-fa, made alterations and improvements, and named his method Tonic Sol-fa.

The Standard Course of Lessons on the Tonic Sol-fa Method of Teaching to Sing was published in 1858.

In 1872, Curwen changed his former course of using the Sol-fa system as an aid to sight reading, when that edition of his Standard Course of Lessons excluded the staff and relied solely on Curwen's Tonic Sol-fa system.

Spaces in Manhattan that supported Downtown music from the 1960s on included the Judson Memorial Church, The Kitchen, Experimental Intermedia, Roulette, the Knitting Factory, Dance Theater Workshop, Tonic, the Gas Station, the Paula Cooper Gallery, and others.

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.

The band is popular in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, and had toured in the U. S. with The Verve Pipe, Tonic, Alanis Morissette and the Indigo Girls, as well as on their own.

When told by a club owner that they needed a name to put on a poster in the window of his establishment, Cummings made a sign: " Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: Tonic for the Soul ".

Beginning on March 19, After Hours was replaced by Tonic, a two-hour block of light jazz programming hosted by Katie Malloch ( Monday to Friday ) and Tim Tamashiro ( Saturday and Sunday ) from 6 p. m. to 8 p. m. ( since moved to 8 p. m. to 10 p. m .) local time, as Radio 2 began a formatting change intended by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to increase the amount of jazz, contemporary popular music and indie rock, as well as boost the amount of Canadian content, in Radio 2's schedule.

The lead singer of Tonic, Emerson Hart, produced five of the tracks on Until Now.

Additionally, he begins writing and production on Tonic frontman Emerson Hart's solo record later in 2012.

* Medeski Martin & Wood ( 2000 ) on the album Tonic

* Ballets created on Corella by today's choreographers: For 4 by Christopher Wheeldon, Non Troppo by Mark Morris, The Pied Piper by David Parsons, HereAfter by Natalie Weir & Stanton Welch, Meadow by Lar Lubovitch, Baroque Game by Robert Hill, Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra by Robert Hill, Known by Heart by Twyla Tharp, Getting Closer by John Neumeier, Sin and Tonic by James Kudelka, and both Clear and We Got it Good by choreographer Stanton Welch.

When this switch is thumb activated, it would open up a pallet ( a pad that covers a tone hole, at the other end of the key button ( s ), ( see photo ) for a simple Tonic / Dominant drone: Tonic on the draw and Dominant on the press, e. g. Tonic notes C / g, and Dominant G / d, without any major or minor thirds.