stretch-attend posture

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A posture in which a rodent elongates the head and shoulders forward before retracting them, taken as a sign of anxiety in open-field tests.

Word forms

stretch-attend posture stretch-attend postures

Synonyms

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