Protective Simulation

Some of you may recall a previous article entitled “Protective Coloration” in which we endeavored to show how the Creator provided many members of the animal kingdom with external cloaks to match their natural surroundings so as to protect them from their enemies. The intent of this article is to illustrate how the Great Designer has provided other animals with an unusual means of self- protection—the ability to feign death. The most familiar example of counter­feiting death is; that of the...