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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Deception in animals (section Deimatic displays)
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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Banded bullfrog (section Behaviour and ecology)
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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Defense, counter Animal coloration Anti-predator adaptations Camouflage Deimatic behaviour Herbivore adaptations to plant defense Mimicry Plant defense against...
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Anti-predator adaptation (redirect from Antipredator behaviour)
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Deimatic behaviour of the mantis Oxyopsis sp....
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Octopus (section Behaviour and ecology)
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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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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[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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