When threatened, it raises its tail warningly over its back like a scorpion.
When it feels threatened, it raises its dorsal fin, which contains three spikes charged with poison.
When a state is threatened, it sends its henchmen out to quell it.
In contrast, when this slug is threatened, it retracts its head, lets go of the substrate, rolls up completely, and stays contracted in a ball-like shape.
And it sets an ugly precedent: if Google feels threatened, it will tweak its degree of openness accordingly.
When a country thinks its national security is threatened, it will hardly let even allies dictate its response.
When threatened, it curls into a circle with its tail covering its head.
When threatened, it curls into a ring with its tail covering its head, a behavior also performed by the shysharks (Haploblepharus).
Even the far-right British National Party has changed its policy, bowing to court rulings that threatened it with a ban unless it shed its whites-only dogmas.
"If a Xolo thinks its owner is being threatened, it will bite.
Whenever the Chinese government has been threatened, it has thrown more of its weight behind Linux, the freebie operating system that poses a looming global threat to Windows.
