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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...
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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...
- 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...
- 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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predators with camouflage.
Lubber gr****hopper,
Titanacris albipes, has
deimatically coloured wings, used to
startle predators. Leaf gr****hopper, Phylloc****ia...
- threatened. Some
cicadas such as
Hemisciera maculipennis display bright deimatic flash coloration on
their hind
wings when threatened; the
sudden contrast...
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Hindwing deimatic (startle)
display of a male
Peruphasma schultei...
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Kenneth W.; Aldryhim, Yousif; Heppner, John B.; Han****,
George (2008). "
Deimatic Behavior".
Encyclopedia of Entomology. pp. 1173–1174. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6359-6_863...
