Sentence examples for threat behaviour from inspiring English sources

Similar mechanisms are common in many animals, such as Anolis lizards, which have brightly coloured throat fans that are visible only when erected during courtship or threat behaviour.

Although direct behavioural observations were only possible in 33.7% of calling events (N = 3 males; N = 83 events), we suspect that this kind of threat behaviour was common in conjunction with this call.

A skunk will go through a series of threat behaviours before it sprays.

He captured the dramatic images by approaching within feet of the animals, a tactic that provoked some into displaying threat behaviours.

Aggressive encounters (eg. aggressive pecking, fighting, and threat behaviours) were recorded via continuous observations weekly from 10 to 21 weeks of age.

In addition, more escape responses were chosen over threat behaviours in body pattern displays at elevated CO2 and individuals were more than twice as likely to use ink as a defence strategy at 956 µatm CO2, compared with controls.

Several species appear capable of modifying their colour in response to various environmental cues such as temperature, predation threats, behaviour stimulus (e.g., crab spiders which try to blend with their background to ambush prey, [ 6]), among others [ 19].

The study findings revealed that the interaction effect of conceptual and procedural knowledge positively impacts on computer users' self-efficacy, which enhances their phishing threat avoidance behaviour.

But what he hoped would be a legacy issue has been buffeted by the terrorist threat, rogue behaviour by North Korea, the slow pace of reducing nuclear stockpiles and worsening relations with America's chief nuclear rival.

Interestingly, although honeybees could potentially behave flexibly in response to different degrees of predation threat, this behaviour only held when spiders were low UV-reflective.

The lack of threat-sensitive behaviours in A. andersoni may indicate that their juveniles are the least endangered IG prey within the guild studied.