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deimatic display: a standalone construct

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Zoology

sudden display, such as revealing eyespots or bright colours, that startles or intimidates a predator into hesitating.

In zoology, deimatic display refers to sudden display, such as revealing eyespots or bright colours, that startles or intimidates a predator into hesitating. This meaning comes from Umbers (2015) in Current Biology.[1]

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Umbers, K. D. L., Lehtonen, J., & Mappes, J. (2015). Deimatic displays. Current Biology, 25(2), R58-R59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.11.011

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