A synthesis of deimatic behaviour

Size-dependent predation risk in cryptic prey

(2021) Matilda Q. R. Pembury Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHOLOGY

Survival Sounds in Insects: Diversity, Function, and Evolution

(2021) Melanie L. Low et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

The anti-predation benefit of flash displays is related to the distance at which the prey initiates its escape

(2021) Karl Loeffler-Henry et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The ecology of electricity and electroreception

(2021) Sam J. England et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Flash and grab: deep-diving southern elephant seals trigger anti-predator flashes in bioluminescent prey

(2020) Pauline Goulet et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Leaf‐footed bugs possess multiple hidden contrasting color signals, but only one is associated with increased body size

(2020) Zachary Emberts et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The evolution of startle displays: a case study in praying mantises

(2020) Marta Vidal-García et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Prey with hidden colour defences benefit from their similarity to aposematic signals

(2020) Yongsu Kim et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The protective value of a defensive display varies with the experience of wild predators

(2019) Kate D. L. Umbers et al.   Scientific Reports

Consistent Associations between Body Size and Hidden Contrasting Color Signals across a Range of Insect Taxa

(2019) Karl Loeffler-Henry et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Antipredator mechanisms of post-metamorphic anurans: a global database and classification system

(2019) Rodrigo B. Ferreira et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

A theory for investment across defences triggered at different stages of a predator-prey encounter

(2019) Lingzi Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The Cognitive Ecology of Stimulus Ambiguity: A Predator–Prey Perspective

(2019) Brian C. Leavell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Fight or flight trade-offs and the defensive behaviour of the mountain katydid, Acripeza reticulata

(2019) Sebastiano De Bona et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Uncovering the function of an enigmatic display: antipredator behaviour in the iconic Australian frillneck lizard

(2019) Christian A Perez-Martinez et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Flash behavior increases prey survival

(2018) Karl Loeffler-Henry et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Why blue tongue? A potential UV-based deimatic display in a lizard

(2018) Arnaud Badiane et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Vocalization in caterpillars: a novel sound-producing mechanism for insects

(2018) Conrado A. Rosi-Denadai et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Testing the feasibility of the startle-first route to deimatism

(2018) Grace G. Holmes et al.   Scientific Reports

Antipredator strategies of striped skunks in response to cues of aerial and terrestrial predators

(2018) Kimberly A. Fisher et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The appearance of mimetic Heliconius butterflies to predators and conspecifics

(2018) Denise Dalbosco Dell'Aglio et al.   EVOLUTION

Fireflies thwart bat attack with multisensory warnings

(2018) Brian C. Leavell et al.   Science Advances

Post-attack defensive displays in three praying mantis species

(2018) James C. O’Hanlon et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Sensory overload: A concept analysis

(2017) Stefan Scheydt et al.   International Journal of Mental Health Nursing

Too hard to swallow: a secret secondary defence of an aposematic insect

(2017) Lu-Yi Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Bioluminescence in Dinoflagellates: Evidence that the Adaptive Value of Bioluminescence in Dinoflagellates is Concentration Dependent

(2017) Karen A. Hanley et al.   PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY

Body size affects the evolution of hidden colour signals in moths

(2017) Changku Kang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hermit crab response to a visual threat is sensitive to looming cues

(2017) Talya Shragai et al.   PeerJ

Towards a tractable working hypothesis for deimatic displays

(2016) Kate D.L. Umbers et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Deimatic or aposematic?

(2016) John Skelhorn et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Bioluminescence

(2016) Tim Kahlke et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evolutionary escalation: the bat–moth arms race

(2016) Hannah M. ter Hofstede et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Anti-predator behavior of squid throughout ontogeny

(2016) Carly A. York et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Midbrain circuits for defensive behaviour

(2016) Philip Tovote et al.   NATURE

Are novel objects perceived as stressful? The effect of novelty on heart rate

(2016) Clare Parker Fischer et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

A Comparative Analysis of Sonic Defences in Bombycoidea Caterpillars

(2016) Veronica L. Bura et al.   Scientific Reports

Postattack deimatic display in the mountain katydid, Acripeza reticulata

(2015) Kate D.L. Umbers et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The neck flattening defensive behaviour in snakes: First record of hooding in the South American colubrid genus Philodryas

(2015) Manuel Jara et al.   ANIMAL BIOLOGY

Sexual dimorphism in conspicuousness and ornamentation in the enigmatic leaf-nosed lizardCeratophora tennentiifrom Sri Lanka

(2015) Martin J. Whiting et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Deimatic displays

(2015) Kate D.L. Umbers et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A Visual Pathway for Looming-Evoked Escape in Larval Zebrafish

(2015) Incinur Temizer et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Evolution of Mechanisms Underlying Behaviour

(2015)   Current Zoology

Motion-triggered defensive display in a tephritid fly

(2015) Samuel Aguilar-Argüello et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHOLOGY

A cost minimisation and Bayesian inference model predicts startle reflex modulation across species

(2015) Dominik R. Bach   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Preys’ exploitation of predators’ fear: when the caterpillar plays the Gruffalo

(2015) Sergio Castellano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Predator mimicry, not conspicuousness, explains the efficacy of butterfly eyespots

(2015) S. De Bona et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Skin secretion peptides: the molecular facet of the deimatic behavior of the four-eyed frog,Physalaemus nattereri(Anura, Leptodactylidae)

(2015) Eder Alves Barbosa et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Enlarged Multilocus Data set Provides Surprisingly Younger Time of Origin for the Plethodontidae, the Largest Family of Salamanders

(2015) Xing-Xing Shen et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The Evolution of Mechanisms Underlying Behaviour

(2015)   Current Zoology

When to Defend: Antipredator Defenses and the Predation Sequence

(2014) Andrew W. Bateman et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Bayes' rule and bias roles in the evolution of decision making

(2014) S. Castellano   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Convergent evolution of anti-bat sounds

(2014) Aaron J. Corcoran et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Role of a looming-sensitive neuron in triggering the defense behavior of the praying mantis Tenodera aridifolia

(2014) Keiichiro Sato et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Acoustic defence in an insect: characteristics of defensive stridulation and differences between the sexes in the tettigoniid Poecilimon ornatus (Schmidt 1850)

(2014) Kerstin N. Kowalski et al.   ZOOLOGY

Bitter taste enhances predatory biases against aggregations of prey with warning coloration

(2013) Hannah M. Rowland et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Why are warning displays multimodal?

(2013) Candy Rowe et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

An introduction to multimodal communication

(2013) James P. Higham et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Rapid Innate Defensive Responses of Mice to Looming Visual Stimuli

(2013) Melis Yilmaz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Effects of stimuli shape and polarization in evoking deimatic patterns in the European cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, under varying turbidity conditions

(2013) Lelia Cartron et al.   INVERTEBRATE NEUROSCIENCE

Eyespot display in the peacock butterfly triggers antipredator behaviors in naïve adult fowl

(2012) Martin Olofsson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

A computational model for the modulation of the prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle reflex

(2012) David Fernando Ramirez-Moreno et al.   BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS

A phylogenetic analysis of Pleurodema (Anura: Leptodactylidae: Leiuperinae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences, with comments on the evolution of anuran foam nests

(2012) Julián Faivovich et al.   CLADISTICS

Variable cost of prey defense and coevolution in predator–prey systems

(2012) Rebecca J. Tien et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

An Experimental Test of the Seismic Behaviors of Antispila Nysaefoliella (Lepidoptera: Heliozelidae) to Vibrational Stimuli

(2012) Candace Low   FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST

Vibration detection and discrimination in the masked birch caterpillar (Drepana arcuata)

(2012) R. N. C. Guedes et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Behaviour of Robsonella fontaniana in response to a potential predator

(2012) Juan Francisco Ruiz et al.   Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research

Effects of Cold Pressor Stress on the Human Startle Response

(2012) Christian E. Deuter et al.   PLoS One

Deimatic Display in the European Swallowtail Butterfly as a Secondary Defence against Attacks from Great Tits

(2012) Martin Olofsson et al.   PLoS One

Lumbar glands in the frog generaPleurodemaandSomuncuria(Anura: Leiuperidae): histological and histochemical perspectives

(2011) Daiana P. Ferraro et al.   ACTA ZOOLOGICA

Winter predation on two species of hibernating butterflies: monitoring rodent attacks with infrared cameras

(2011) Martin Olofsson et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The evolution of superstition through optimal use of incomplete information

(2011) Kevin R. Abbott et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Primary and secondary defences of squid to cruising and ambush fish predators: variable tactics and their survival value

(2011) Michelle D. Staudinger et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Firefly flashing and jumping spider predation

(2011) Skye M. Long et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Educated predators make strategic decisions to eat defended prey according to their toxin content

(2011) Craig A. Barnett et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Auditory defence in the peacock butterfly (Inachis io) against mice (Apodemus flavicollis and A. sylvaticus)

(2011) Martin Olofsson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Repeated elicitation of the acoustic startle reflex leads to sensitisation in subsequent avoidance behaviour and induces fear conditioning

(2011) Thomas Götz et al.   BMC NEUROSCIENCE

Effect of sex and bright coloration on survival and predator-induced wing damage in an aposematic lantern fly with startle display

(2011) CHANG-KU KANG et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Ontogeny of antipredator behaviour in striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis)

(2011) S.A. Medill et al.   ETHOLOGY ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Defence behaviours of the praying mantis Tenodera aridifolia in response to looming objects

(2011) Yoshifumi Yamawaki   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Phasic and Sustained Fear are Pharmacologically Dissociable in Rats

(2011) Leigh Miles et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

The functional morphology of hooding in cobras

(2010) B. A. Young et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Whistling in caterpillars (Amorpha juglandis, Bombycoidea): sound-producing mechanism and function

(2010) V. L. Bura et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Sound production in Caribbean spiny lobsterPanulirus argusand its role in escape during predatory attack byOctopus briareus

(2010) Peter E. Bouwma et al.   NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

A tropical horde of counterfeit predator eyes

(2010) D. H. Janzen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution towards oscillation or stability in a predator-prey system

(2010) A. Mougi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Colour Changes and Colour Patterns of Sepia officinalis L

(2010) William Holmes   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON

Masquerade: Camouflage Without Crypsis

(2010) J. Skelhorn et al.   SCIENCE

Cuttlefish use startle displays, but not against large predators

(2009) Keri V. Langridge   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Bioluminescence in the Sea

(2009) Steven H.D. Haddock et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Capture of Attention to Threatening Stimuli without Perceptual Awareness

(2009) Jeffrey Y. Lin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

What’s the buzz? Ultrasonic and sonic warning signals in caterpillars of the great peacock moth (Saturnia pyri)

(2009) Veronica L. Bura et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Phasic vs Sustained Fear in Rats and Humans: Role of the Extended Amygdala in Fear vs Anxiety

(2009) Michael Davis et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Speed–accuracy tradeoffs in animal decision making

(2009) Lars Chittka et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Dynamics of multiple signalling systems: animal communication in a world in flux

(2009) Jakob Bro-Jørgensen   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Electric organ morphology and function in the lesser electric ray, Narcine brasiliensis

(2009) Laura J. Macesic et al.   ZOOLOGY

Arousal Facilitates Collision Avoidance Mediated by a Looming Sensitive Visual Neuron in a Flying Locust

(2008) F. Claire Rind et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Mammalian choices: combining fast-but-inaccurate and slow-but-accurate decision-making systems

(2008) P. C Trimmer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES