1866 E. F. Staveley iv. 233 Its legs are more untidy and sprawling than is usual in the death-feigning spiders.
1916 S. J. Holmes xi. 215 The death-feigning instinct in these forms had its origin in an accentuation of the thigmotactic response.
1997 G. S. Helfman et al. viii. 108/2 Very different solutions to catching mobile prey. Examples include lie-in-wait and luring predators (goosefishes.., death-feigning cichlids), [etc.].