The word decoy is a noun. Decoy means (1) something used to lure victims into danger, (2) a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot).
Decoy is also a verb that means (1) lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy.
The following articles and web pages elaborate on the word decoy.
For duck hunters who hunted between 1930 and 1980 especially, Wildfowler decoys are the first that come to mind, and they continue to be viewed with a certain nostalgia.
Browse this wood carvings retailer directory to find wood carving retailers in the United States of America. The photograph on this web page depicts a carved wood duck decoy.
Project Honey Pot is a distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from websites. It works by having participants add decoy web pages to their web sites that the Project then keeps track of and collates the data to detect robots, spiders, and crawlers. The website explains how the system works and how to participate.
The following articles provide recent decoy-related news.
French countermeasures and pyrotechnics group Lacroix has revealed a package of studies and associated risk reduction work aimed at demonstrating the feasibility of ...
Janes 360. Monday, 19 Oct 2020 13:10:11 Z.
By placing 3D-printed and GPS-enabled decoy sea turtle eggs into nests on the beach, it's possible to gather key evidence needed to expose rampant illegal trade of the eggs, suggests a new study. ...
Science Daily. Monday, 05 Oct 2020 11:21:29 EDT.
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