Basking may refer to:
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Basking in reflected glory, 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), 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) 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 temperatur ...
, 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 a ...
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