Thursday, August 4, 2016

Kinesis

Kinesis are the changes in activity level of an animal that are dependent on stimulus strength. Cockroaches, as shown above, can be a great example for kinesis. For cockroaches, a stimuli would be light. When you flash a light on a group of cockroaches, they would not move forward or away, they would just scatter around the energy. The stimuli cause their movement to be completely random.

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