“Two men climbed the highest hill!
They did it again just for thrill!
You would think that’s so cool oh my!
Fact is they didn’t climb! T’was a lie!”
Deceiving, lying and cheating are typical human behaviour! You must not be surprised at this!
In many movies we have seen Guys trying to woo a girl by either upgrading themselves or reducing or distracting competition!
This act is called Tactical deception!
Intentional tactical deception, the employment of a tactic to intentionally deceive another animal, is apparently a complex behaviour based on higher-order cognition, that has rarely been documented outside of primates and corvids!
or is it!…
read on!
With the amount of scams happening all over the world, you would never be safe!
It has been said that the moment money was invented, the very next moment a thief was born!
Of course stories of those great thief’s like Robin Hood and others have always been told to justify the fact that what they were primarily doing was wrong!
No matter what the justification is, the hard earned money of someone belongs to him or her!
What is surprising though is that starting from the earliest times, you actually need more brains to steal than to earn! In one movie Thalai Rajni used to say that a robber needs to have all his or her alert all the time! Only then he or she can become ‘successful’!
Even now, a thief has to be very clever and intelligent to escape getting caught and must always be one step ahead!
Being a thief or a robber or a person who deceives, needs more talent and smartness! You would then think why not use these talents the proper way!
Tactical deception is a type of deception which occurs when an individual is able to use an “honest” act from his normal repertoire in a different context to mislead familiar individuals. We see this frequently when people pretend to have lost their wallet or try to ‘trick’ you with their stories.
Now tactical deception was something very close to humans when this group of researchers found this test in lab mice!
In the study they placed laboratory-style test chambers with a single entrance near a forest outside Warsaw, where they observed the social interactions of two territorial murids, black-striped and yellow-necked mice, under food competition for seven months!
They video-recorded 21 instances of deceptive pursuer evasion!
In the most obvious cases, an individual inside the chamber, to avoid an incoming mouse, hid by the chamber opening (the only means to enter or exit), paused until the pursuer entered and passed by, and then exploited the distraction of the back-turned pursuer by fleeing through the opening in a direction opposite to the one the pursuer came from. This deceptive dodging is the first evidence of a behaviour suggestive of intentional tactical deception among mice!
Now do not be surprised that this is only the beginning! In fact there is an animal which used tactical deception in a way which would make a human proud!
So these Squid-like cuttlefish are known for their amazing camouflage abilities, thanks to specialized skin cells that allow them to change color in the blink of an eye. Now research finds that these clever mollusks use their color-changing abilities in creative ways: by pretending to be the other gender! Mrs Doubtfire or Chachi 420!
So apparently when a male cuttlefish is wooing a lady, he often “cheats” by painting typical female patterns on one side of his body, while the other side — the one facing the female — shows off typical male patterns!
This gender-bending disguise fools rival males into thinking they’re seeing just a couple of ladies hanging out!
That means more of an opportunity for the cheater cuttlefish to be successful in his endeavour!
By using this sneaky display, the males are buying more time to convince and ‘get’ the girls before they are discovered by other males!
Of course this behaviour occurred only in groups where there were two males and one female! Competition really gives rise to, well, deceptors and charlatans and not originals!
Original and amazingly talented though is birthday celebrity Anuradha Paudwal!
The way she came and simply blew away all competition is, well another blog!
Now be happy that there is no competition for you and sleep! Of course there may be competition but then no point losing your sleep over it right!?
Shubh Ratri!
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