After a day of helping other people move in freezing, windy, rainy weather, however, and observing their cats immediately burrowing into box springs and crawling under couches upon being introduced to their new home, the only kind of moving I want to think about is scototaxis, the movement of an organism toward or into a dark area. It comes from a Greek combining form meaning "darkness" and the suffix -taxis, meaning movement in response to an external stimulus. As practically every source I consulted pointed this out, I suppose I should too!: Scototaxis is not the same thing as negative phototaxis. As I understand it, the former is a positive response/attraction to darkness, while the latter is a negative response to light.
Tuesday Word: scototaxis
After a day of helping other people move in freezing, windy, rainy weather, however, and observing their cats immediately burrowing into box springs and crawling under couches upon being introduced to their new home, the only kind of moving I want to think about is scototaxis, the movement of an organism toward or into a dark area. It comes from a Greek combining form meaning "darkness" and the suffix -taxis, meaning movement in response to an external stimulus. As practically every source I consulted pointed this out, I suppose I should too!: Scototaxis is not the same thing as negative phototaxis. As I understand it, the former is a positive response/attraction to darkness, while the latter is a negative response to light.
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