John is a sheep rancher in montana who wants to discourage predators from going after his sheep. he placed sheep meat with a nausea-inducing chemical; after eating it just one or two times, coyotes and wolves still ran up to lambs, but instead of attacking, they retreated, hid, and vomited. they had developed a to sheep.

They had developed a conditioned taste aversion to sheep.

Conditioned taste aversion is a type of classical conditioning in which an animal learns to associate the taste of a particular food with subsequent illness due to the consumption of poisonous or toxic substances in the food. An animal can develop a taste aversion when ingesting a particular food is followed by vomiting, nausea or illness. This trains the body of the animal to avoid further ingestion of the particular poisonous food in the future.

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what is a measurement of the earth’s history divided into time periods?

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radioactive elements