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July 8 (UPI) --Researchers consider playing dead, or post-contact immobility, a strange phenomenon. Many animals play dead when faced with a predator, and researchers don't understand how the ruse ...

A new study led by scientists from the University of Bristol has revealed what animals do after they have feigned death in order to avoid being killed by a predator and what the context of this ...

Many animals feign death to try to escape their predators, with some individuals in prey species remaining motionless, if in danger, for extended lengths of time. Charles Darwin recorded a beetle that ...

A study shows that pretending to be immobile — sometimes for an hour or more — helps larvae of insects called antlions outlast hungry predators. By Cara Giaimo Antlion larvae are famously ferocious: ...

Antlion larvae, along with other trap-building predators, offer a compelling model for exploring the interplay between behaviour, morphology and environment in sit-and-wait predation. These organisms ...

This bizarre-looking insect is an antlion. Shown here is what it looks like in its larvae stage. As an adult, it has wings and looks somewhat like an insect called a lacewing. An antlion larvae digs a ...

Something was fluttering clumsily near my tent. That evening in Canyonlands was too cold for sustained insect flight, but nevertheless it repeatedly tried to lift off. A macro photo provided a close ...

Antlions or doodlebugs (Myrmeleon immaculatus) are tiny insect larvae that dig funnel-shaped pits in sandy soil in areas protected from wind and direct rainfall. If you have a sharp eye, you can find ...

Many animals feign death to try to escape their predators, with some individuals in prey species remaining motionless, if in danger, for extended lengths of time. Many animals feign death to try to ...