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Terminal Burrowing Behavior
Terminal burrowing behavior is a term used to describe a paradoxical undressing sometimes observed in human cases of life-threatening hypothermia. People exhibiting such behavior shed their clothing in what is believed to be a primitive autonomous response originating from the brain stem.
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