C. maculosus has developed behavioral mechanisms of avoiding environmental stresses in a similar fashion to desert-adapted animals.

Additional investigation will be needed to confirm and extend these findings as well as elucidate the possible underlying behavioral mechanisms that are involved.

However self-fertilization is prevented through morphological, physiological or behavioral mechanisms.

There are no known behavioral isolating mechanism between the two and hybrids do occur.

For example, if a person is experiencing fear, a possible behavioral mechanism would be to run away from the fear factor.

Here nature has provided a behavioral mechanism to deal with those situations in which aggression seems indicated.

T. eques has also developed behavioral thermoregulatory mechanisms for sunlight exposure.

The behavioral mechanism operates via health practices.

Although the neuroanatomical path of testosterone can be mapped, its underlying behavioral mechanism is not known.

More generally, the term can also refer to the speech and behavioral mechanisms adopted in the presence of an authoritative figure.