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An elderly patient with diabetes is seeing the health care provider for complaints of visual changes.The patient explains to the nurse that visual changes include distortion that makes the edges of objects appear wavy.The nurse knows that this is an early sign of which of the following?


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Territory Maintenance

Behavior exhibited by animals to mark and defend their territory from intrusion by others.

Energy Expended

The amount of energy used by the body in performing various activities, including basal metabolic processes and physical activity.

Reciprocal Altruism

A behavior in which an organism acts in a way that temporarily reduces its fitness while increasing another organism's fitness, with the expectation that this action will be reciprocated in the future.

Sparrow Song

The vocalization produced by sparrows, primarily used by males to attract mates and establish territory.

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