User:Forest Trinket/Biting

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Biting is a common zoological behavior involving the active, rapid closing of the jaw around an object. Copied from Biting. Biting is an action involving teeth closing together down on an object.

This behavior is found in toothed animals such as mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, but can also exist in arthropods. Copied from Biting. Biting is also an action humans participate in, commonly when chewing food.

Humans can have the tendency to bite each other whether they are children or adults.

In Humans
Young children who bite others do so out of play or aggression whereas adults bite others out of aggression. Bites that occur from adults fighting are usually on the hands and the skeletal section. Infections are a result of bacteria from the mouth spread to another human and are the third common types of bites that require a hospital visit.

Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries, editor. “Bite.” The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, 6th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 2016. Credo Reference, https://search.credoreference.com/articles/Qm9va0FydGljbGU6NDM5MTEzNg==?aid=105019.

Mazzei, Michael, et al. “Human Bite Infections.” Gale Encyclopedia of Children’s Health: Infancy Through Adolescence, edited by Gale, 3rd ed., Gale, 2016. Credo Reference, https://search.credoreference.com/articles/Qm9va0FydGljbGU6NTc3NDU4?aid=105019.