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However, some studies [27] have failed to find any correlation between the cost of replacing a brood (a measure of parental investment) and the frequency of distraction display. Lastly, game theory has been employed to explain how grouse may decide to display or not based on proxies for the abundance of "smart" predators, such as abundance of ...
Other characters also feign for love. [5] Odysseus feigned madness by yoking a horse and an ox to his plow and sowing salt [6] or plowing the beach. Palamedes believed that he was faking and tested it by placing his son, Telemachus right in front of the plow. When Odysseus stopped immediately, his sanity was proven.
Birds often feign death to escape predation; for example tonic immobility in quail reduces the probability of attacks by cats. [16] Death feigning may also play a role in reproduction, for example, in the nursery web spider, the male sometimes feigns death to avoid getting eaten by females during mating. [17]
The experiment is said to have "accelerated the movement to reform mental institutions and to deinstitutionalize as many mental patients as possible". [4] Rosenhan claimed that he, along with eight other people (five men and three women), entered 12 hospitals in five states near the west coast of the US.
A feigned retreat is a military tactic, a type of feint, whereby a military force pretends to withdraw or to have been routed, in order to lure an enemy into a position of vulnerability. [ 1 ] A feigned retreat is one of the more difficult tactics for a military force to undertake, and requires well-disciplined soldiers.
As it turns out, though, the lines have been proven fake. According to fact-checking site Snopes, they found no record of Trump saying this in 1998 or any other time according to their research.
This is Trump on stage at a rally, pretending to perform a sex-act on a microphone. Trump appeared to make the gesture on stage at a rally in Milwaukee on November 1 (Fox News/YouTube)
A coach can be suspended for a game after three fake injuries are found. SEC to crack down on dubious injury timeouts: 'Play football and stop the feigned injury nonsense' [Video] Skip to main content