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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 con****uous...
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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...
- to
communicate to
other cuttlefish, to
camouflage themselves, and as a
deimatic display to warn off
potential predators.
Under some cir****stances, cuttlefish...
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closely enough to
share the protection,
while many
species have
bluffing deimatic displays which may
startle a
predator long
enough to
enable an otherwise...
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defend themselves, such as skunks. The
pattern is used both in
startle or
deimatic displays and as a
signal to warn off
experienced predators. However, animals...
- with its
forelegs and
attempt to
pinch or bite. As part of the
bluffing (
deimatic)
threat display, some
species may also
produce a
hissing sound by expelling...
- go
through an
elaborate routine of hisses, foot-stamping, and tail-high
deimatic or
threat postures before resorting to spraying.
Skunks usually do not...
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Amazon rain
forest cicada Hemisciera maculipennis displays bright red
deimatic flash coloration on its
hindwings when threatened; the
sudden contrast...
- and mimicry; some have con****uous
warning coloration (aposematism) or
deimatic behaviour (“bluffing” a
seemingly threatening appearance). An
octopus may...
- This
gives the prey
animal an
opportunity to escape. The
behaviour is
deimatic (startling)
rather than
aposematic as
these insects are
palatable to predators...
