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  2. The Goriest Defense Mechanism of Any Animal - AOL

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    This is sometimes enough to scare off a predator, or at least make the lizard look like a tough snack to swallow. In addition, horned lizards often run in short bursts, creating a quick and ...

  3. Trapping - Wikipedia

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    An attractant is placed inside the hole. The hole for the set is usually made in front of some type of object which is where medium-sized animals such as coyotes, fox or bobcats would use for themselves to store food. This object could be a tuft of taller grass, a stone, a stump, or some other natural object.

  4. Deimatic behaviour - Wikipedia

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    Spirama helicina resembling the face of a snake in a deimatic or bluffing display. Deimatic behaviour or startle display [1] means any pattern of bluffing behaviour in an animal that lacks strong defences, such as suddenly displaying conspicuous eyespots, to scare off or momentarily distract a predator, thus giving the prey animal an opportunity to escape.

  5. Anti-predator adaptation - Wikipedia

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    Many weakly-defended animals, including moths, butterflies, mantises, phasmids, and cephalopods such as octopuses, make use of patterns 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. In the ...

  6. How to keep ground bees away, and low-maintenance ground ...

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    Q: I would like to plant a low-maintenance ground cover in my tree border. I think once established, it would eliminate some mowing. My current thought is thyme, which shouldn’t need much ...

  7. Bird scarer - Wikipedia

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    Propane scare cannons are one of the most common types of bird scarer available in Europe and America. It is a propane -powered gas gun which produces a periodic explosion . The audible bang can reach very loud volumes, in excess of 150 decibels , causing a flight reaction in birds.

  8. How California eco-bureaucrats halted a Pacific Palisades ...

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    The good news for the milkvetch plant is that they usually need wildfire to sprout — meaning dormant seeds now have a massive new habitat for a new crop of the rare shrub.

  9. Found footage (film technique) - Wikipedia

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    The events on screen are typically seen through the camera of one or more of the characters involved, often accompanied by their real-time, off-camera commentary. For added realism , the cinematography may be done by the actors themselves as they perform, and shaky camera work and naturalistic acting are routinely employed.