BioConcepts

paratrepsisParatrepsis (ger.)

• Injury feigning; anti-predator behaviours used to attract the attention of an enemy away from an object, typically the nest or young, that is being protected.
  category parental care

  1949

  “Paratrepsis”, “turning aside”, has the meaning “diversion”.

  Armstrong, E.A. (1949). Diversionary display, part 1. Connotation and terminology. Ibis 91, 88-97: 97.

  1983

  paratrepsis Distraction display

  Lincoln, R., Boxshall, G. & Clark, P. (1983). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 183.