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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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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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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Anti-predator adaptation (redirect from Antipredator behaviour)
1017/S1464793105006810. PMID 16221330. S2CID 24868603. Edmunds, Malcolm (2012). "Deimatic Behavior". Springer. Retrieved 31 December 2012. Smith, Ian (3 December...
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Octopus (section Behaviour and ecology)
mimicry; some have conspicuous warning coloration (aposematism) or deimatic behaviour (“bluffing” a seemingly threatening appearance). An octopus may spend...
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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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Deimatic behaviour of the mantis Oxyopsis sp....
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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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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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(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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PMID 15889076. S2CID 4408533. Novales Flamarique, Iñigo (2019). "Swimming behaviour tunes fish polarization vision to double prey sighting distance". Scientific...
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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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[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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species that actions like these can startle predators such as lizards (deimatic behaviour), and it is believed this is the case in the stick insect as well...
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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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Idolomantis (section Behaviour)
of the insect. When confronted by a predator, I. diabolica initiates a deimatic display in an attempt "to scare off or momentarily distract a predator"...
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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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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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Defense, counter Animal coloration Anti-predator adaptations Camouflage Deimatic behaviour Herbivore adaptations to plant defense Mimicry Plant defense against...
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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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theory Anti-predator adaptation Alarm signal Aposematism Apparent death Deimatic behaviour Distraction display Crypsis Camouflage Mimicry Unkenreflex...
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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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Defense, counter Animal coloration Anti-predator adaptations Camouflage Deimatic behaviour Herbivore adaptations to plant defense Mimicry Plant defense against...
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Iris oratoria (section Behaviour)
is known for two distinctive behaviours, apart from the ambush hunting common to other mantids: cannibalism and deimatic or threat displays. The sexual...
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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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