However, when provoked all species will put on a rather dramatic open-mouthed threat display.
Its threat display is magnificently colored, with red, white, blue, purple and black.
Unfortunately, we had business, and a really good threat display was not reason enough to stop us.
A threat display is anything that an animal does to scare away other animals.
It was a gesture of cheerful enthusiasm rather than a threat display.
If this were a simple conflict between attack and escape, it would have led to threat displays.
Their territorial threat display is also used by male lizards to attract females.
Spiders make use of a variety of different threat displays.
However, caution should be exercised if it begins to perform a threat display.
A threat display is meant to be seen, so it required bright colors that would stand out against its more muted body".