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    Deimatic behaviour or startle display means any pattern of bluffing behaviour in an animal that lacks strong defences, such as suddenly displaying conspicuous...
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  • to distract a predator, such as when a cephalopod releases ink. In deimatic behaviour, a harmless animal adopts a threatening pose or displays startling...
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    Camouflage Chromatophore Counter-illumination Countershading Crypsis Deimatic behaviour Disruptive coloration coincident Eyespot (mimicry) Mimicry Structural...
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    Defense, counter Animal coloration Anti-predator adaptations Camouflage Deimatic behaviour Herbivore adaptations to plant defense Mimicry Plant defense against...
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    1017/S1464793105006810. PMID 16221330. S2CID 24868603. Edmunds, Malcolm (2012). "Deimatic Behavior". Springer. Retrieved 31 December 2012. Smith, Ian (3 December...
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    and snails such as the golden apple snail. Banded bullfrogs display deimatic behaviour when threatened, greatly inflating their bodies in an attempt to distract...
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    mimicry; some have conspicuous warning coloration (aposematism) or deimatic behaviour. An octopus may spend 40% of its time hidden away in its den. When...
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    black-faced impala stotting in Namibia An impala stotting Aposematism Deimatic behaviour "Definition of stot". www.allwords.com. "pronk". A Dictionary of South...
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    predator. This gives the prey animal an opportunity to escape. The behaviour is deimatic (startling) rather than aposematic as these insects are palatable...
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    Deimatic behaviour of the mantis Oxyopsis sp....
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    its arms. When it is disturbed, its colour becomes more intense, deimatic behaviour which may make it appear threatening to a potential predator. Populations...
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    PMID 15889076. S2CID 4408533. Novales Flamarique, Iñigo (2019). "Swimming behaviour tunes fish polarization vision to double prey sighting distance". Scientific...
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    (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2015. Miklósi, Adám (2009). Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199295852...
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  • Defense, counter Animal coloration Anti-predator adaptations Camouflage Deimatic behaviour Herbivore adaptations to plant defense Mimicry Plant defense against...
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    for gaining insight into the structure, stability, and laws of food web behaviours relative to observable outcomes. "Food web theory centers around the idea...
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    releasing chemical compounds, modifying abiotic factors, or affecting the behaviour of herbivores, impacting on other species. Some, like Kalanchoe daigremontana...
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    Camouflage Chromatophore Counter-illumination Countershading Crypsis Deimatic behaviour Disruptive coloration coincident Eyespot (mimicry) Mimicry Structural...
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    Defense, counter Animal coloration Anti-predator adaptations Camouflage Deimatic behaviour Herbivore adaptations to plant defense Mimicry Plant defense against...
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    theory Anti-predator adaptation Alarm signal Aposematism Apparent death Deimatic behaviour Distraction display Crypsis Camouflage Mimicry Unkenreflex...
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    Butterfly (section Behaviour)
    themselves by freezing and appearing like sticks or branches. Others have deimatic behaviours, such as rearing up and waving their front ends which are marked...
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    pine), and P. wallichiana (blue pine). Mass of larvae on pine tree Deimatic behaviour: group of larvae waving their heads simultaneously Outbreaks of D...
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    theory Anti-predator adaptation Alarm signal Aposematism Apparent death Deimatic behaviour Distraction display Crypsis Camouflage Mimicry Unkenreflex...
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    Defense, counter Animal coloration Anti-predator adaptations Camouflage Deimatic behaviour Herbivore adaptations to plant defense Mimicry Plant defense against...
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  • Startle may also refer to: Startle display or deimatic behaviour, any pattern of bluffing behaviour in an animal that lacks strong defences Startle...
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  • Defense, counter Animal coloration Anti-predator adaptations Camouflage Deimatic behaviour Herbivore adaptations to plant defense Mimicry Plant defense against...
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    the forewing, enabling the insect to switch rapidly from cryptic to deimatic behaviour. Some hemipterans such as firebugs have bold aposematic warning coloration...
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    of its mouth, for any of various purposes. This may be a form of deimatic behaviour, colloquially known as a startle display or threat display, as it...
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    Defense, counter Animal coloration Anti-predator adaptations Camouflage Deimatic behaviour Herbivore adaptations to plant defense Mimicry Plant defense against...
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    [Description of Physalaemus deimaticus, sp. n., and observations on the deimatic behaviour in P. nattereri (Steindn.) — Anura, Leptodactylidae]. Revista de Biologia...
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    large and heavy for their wings to enable a take-off. Mantids show strong deimatic display from very early life stages on. This behavior can be observed throughout...
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