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back to the year 1646 in a report by Athanasius Kircher, in which he subdued chickens. Tonic immobility (also known as the act of feigning death, or exhibiting...

ironclad beetle or blue death feigning beetle, is a species of darkling beetle native to southwestern United States (southern California to Utah and New Mexico)...

their tendency to feign death when cornered. The largest species, the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), is the only marsupial to be found in North...

Vernon King (Eddie Feigner) in Walla Walla, Washington, he played softball for much of his early life, and turned his attention to the sport full-time...

extremely difficult to see until it moves. One of its defenses against predators is to blend in with this debris and to feign death when disturbed. These...

opossum is noted for feigning death in response to extreme fear. This is the genesis of the term "playing possum", which means pretending to be dead or injured...

fitting climax to the opera. Puccini justified his musical treatment by citing Tosca's preoccupation with teaching Cavaradossi to feign death. In the execution...

of qi within the body upon death, an adherent could 'feign death' and be reborn. If not, an adherent would be transported to an earthly prison where he...

helping to distract attack and increase the chance of survival. In more active forms of anti-predator adaptation, animals may feign death when they...

December 1999). In the end, he was sentenced to death for the murders of Attiya and Aziz, and was to be put to death in front of the Sana'a University, in front...

defence they can produce a garlic-smelling fluid from the anal glands, and feign death (thanatosis) by becoming completely limp when they may also secrete blood...

to slow down opponents and a hallucination grenade which spouts gas to confuse them. Spies also possess the ability to feign death, allowing them to use...

cowardly, weak, deceitful, and cunning animal, said to feign death by filling its abdomen with air to appear bloated, then lies on its side, awaiting the...

darkness, and is quick to return to its lair before sunrise. Although it has a habit of feigning death when attacked, it has been known to stand its ground...

"Feigned madness" is a phrase used in popular culture to describe the assumption of a mental disorder for the purposes of evasion, deceit or the diversion...

fell from his horse. He was forced to feign death in order to save himself. The rebels, believing their general to be dead, lost heart and fled. Salvius...

literature to describe the phenomenon of tonic immobility also known as "playing possum" (in reference to the opossum's behavior of feigning death when threatened)...

After Beyah enters the cave, she is attacked by a male Neanderthal. She feigns death and mortally wounds him. She continues into the cave where she discovers...

survives long enough to torment both Hank and Peggy, even slowing his heartbeat down to feign death (a trick he learned while confined to a Japanese POW camp)...

and cannot detect any movement more than three to four inches away. If cornered, they will feign death as last resort. Common house spiders have neurotoxic...