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"In earlier cleaner wrasse mirror studies, the procedure was typically the fish see a mirror for several days, they habituate to it and stop reacting socially, and a mark is added," Dr. Sogawa explained.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026

Then there are habits: we can habituate ourselves to speed - so fast can feel slow, and vice versa, depending on what you're used to.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

But enough venues are starting to ask for digital passes to worry some privacy advocates, who fear the trend could habituate consumers to constant tracking.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2021

Other sloths that will return to the wild receive numbers instead of names because the Rodriguezes do not want them to habituate to people.

From Reuters ● Aug. 4, 2021

It is worth while to habituate him early not to command people, for he is not their master; nor things, for they cannot understand him.

From Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts by Jules Steeg

It said cat food is not a natural part of the nene diet, and eating at the feeding stations habituates nene to people and makes them reliant on the provided food.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

Researchers don’t fully understand how the body habituates to cold weather.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2020

One potentially lethal consequence for humans is that baiting bears with food such as doughnuts habituates them to the human scent, thus increasing the risk of attacks on people.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2017

Lardellier compares modern technology to “an umbilical cord”— it “nourishes” and “calms” those who use it, but also habituates them to a state of constant “reassurance.”

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2015

The study of the properties of numbers, he tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us above the material universe.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

Captive parrots have become habituated to humans and popular with pet owners, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026

People have become habituated to this, tolerate it, factor it in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

Now, 25 years after starting her pioneering research on savannah chimps, which had never before been habituated to observers, primatologist Jill Pruetz has a wealth of data.

From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026

The process might actually begin much earlier than previously thought, they said, notably when animals became habituated to human environments.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025

“Once habituated to his distrustful manner,” said I, “I have done very well.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Researchers started habituating the chimps to the presence of humans in 1987.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024

This is the second attempt at habituating Mpungwe.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2024

Postal Service hitting record levels, the industry where nearly three-quarters of e-commerce companies offer some sort of free shipping is rethinking the financial cost of habituating shoppers to free shipping.

From Reuters ● Mar. 24, 2023

Boat strikes also kill manatees, so further habituating them to vessels or people could be deadly.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2021

My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë