Basking may refer to:
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Basking in reflected glory
Basking in reflected glory (BIRGing) is a self-serving cognition whereby an individual associates themselves with known successful others such that the winner's success becomes the individual's own accomplishment.
The affiliation of another's su ...
, associating oneself with successful other such that their success becomes one's own
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Basking Ridge, New Jersey
Basking Ridge is an unincorporated community located within Bernards Township in the Somerset Hills region of Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the population for the ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) 07920 w ...
, unincorporated area in Bernards Township in the Somerset Hills region of Somerset County, New Jersey
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Basking Ridge (NJT station)
Basking Ridge is a New Jersey Transit station in Bernards Township, New Jersey along the Gladstone Branch of the Morris and Essex Lines.
The single station building, located on the north side of the single track, was constructed in 1912 by th ...
, New Jersey Transit station in Bernards Township, New Jersey
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Basking shark
The basking shark (''Cetorhinus maximus'') is the second-largest living shark and fish, after the whale shark, and one of three plankton-eating shark species, along with the whale shark and megamouth shark. Adults typically reach in leng ...
, ''Cetorhinus maximus'', is the second largest living fish, after the whale shark
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Sunning (behaviour)
Sunning or basking, sometimes also known as sunbathing, is a thermoregulatory or comfort behaviour used by animals, especially birds, reptiles, and insects, to help raise their body temperature, reduce the energy needed for temperature maintenance ...
or Basking behaviour used to raise
body temperature
Thermoregulation is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different. A thermoconforming organism, by contrast, simply adopts the surrounding temperature ...
, exhibited by some animals (see
ectotherm
An ectotherm (from the Greek () "outside" and () "heat") is an organism in which internal physiological sources of heat are of relatively small or of quite negligible importance in controlling body temperature.Davenport, John. Animal Life ...
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