The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living World.

Is giant panda handstand urine-marking really inflating their size? Do birds count their eggs to optimize their clutch size? The rest operate at different stages of the predatory sequence: amphibians and reptiles avoiding detection, caterpillars are either mimicking a predator's predator or startling it (not masquerading) to deter attack, possums are feigning death to avoid a coup de grâce, squids are hiding their whereabouts. [Extracted from the article]