Active animal behaviors {ergotropic behavior} involve fighting, fleeing, seeking food, and looking for mate. Pupils dilate, respiration increases, and blood pressure rises.
Animal resting and building-up behaviors {trophotropic behavior} involve sleeping, eating, digesting, eliminating, replenishing glucose, and building cells from protein and fat. Pupils are small, respiration is slow, and alimentary canal glands secrete.
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