At midday, he will manage to swap all the healthy food items in his lunchbox for Haribo Starmix and sherbet flying saucers, ingest them, and begin to exhibit startling behaviour.
Deimatic behaviour in animals means any pattern of threatening or startling behaviour, such as suddenly displaying conspicuous eyespots, so as to scare off or momentarily distract a predator, thus giving the prey animal an opportunity to escape.
It said they concentrated on present concerns and rarely identified "other possibilities that produce startling emergent behaviour".So where might the next big surprise lie?
The scientists used abstract mathematics known as topology to overturn conventional thinking and explain these startling shifts in behaviour.
Today, however, pop's unlikeliest Lothario has offered a startling apology, describing his behaviour as an addiction.
The researchers found that when they bred mice to have a selective deficiency in these special cells, the mice began to display a startling amount of itching behaviour, even removing tufts of hair in their vigorous efforts.
Then he quietly unveiled a plan to tackle petty criminality and anti-social behaviour that was startling for its moderation, at least by comparison with what has come before.Britons may not suffer more from incivilities such as graffiti, spitting and verbal abuse than other nations, but they certainly make more of a fuss about them.
"These kind of startling admissions around job creation highlight the deceptive behaviour of mining companies in pumping up the reported benefits of a project.
Everything is planned, and everything is mediated, and modulated, and to see actual human behaviour in the public space is just startling".
Now, his behaviour isn't exceptional, and an act that was once startling seems cosy.
The reflex to blame women's behaviour for birth defects partakes of this superstitious world governed by "sympathies," where the mere sight of a startling creature could prompt a pregnant woman to give birth to a monster.
