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Prey aggregation is an effective olfactory predator avoidance strategy [PDF]

, 2014
Predator–prey interactions have a major effect on species abundance and diversity, and aggregation is a well-known anti-predator behaviour. For immobile prey, the effectiveness of aggregation depends on two conditions: (a) the inability of the predator ...
Dunn, Alison M., Johannesen, Asa, Morrell, Lesley J.   +2 more
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Energy cost and return for hunting in African wild dogs and cheetahs

Nature Communications, 2016
The long-distance hunting behaviour of African wild dogs is thought to be energetically costly. Here, Hubel et al. show that multiple opportunistic short-distance hunts and group feeding make African wild dogs in mixed woodland savannah energetically ...
Tatjana Y. Hubel, Julia P. Myatt, Neil R. Jordan, Oliver P. Dewhirst, J. Weldon McNutt, Alan M. Wilson   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Proximate factors underpinning receiver responses to deceptive false alarm calls in wild tufted capuchin monkeys: is it counterdeception? [PDF]

, 2012
Previous research demonstrates that tufted capuchin monkeys use terrestrial predator alarm calls in a functionally deceptive manner to distract conspecifics when feeding on contestable resources, although the success of this tactic is limited because ...
Byrne RW, Fischer J, Fragaszy DM, Hauser MD, Krebs J, Maynard Smith J, Searcy WA, Wheeler BC, Wiley RH   +8 more
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Selective Predation of a Stalking Predator on Ungulate Prey

PLOS ONE, 2016
Prey selection is a key factor shaping animal populations and evolutionary dynamics. An optimal forager should target prey that offers the highest benefits in terms of energy content at the lowest costs. Predators are therefore expected to select for prey of optimal size. Stalking predators do not pursue their prey long, which may lead to a more random
Benno Woelfing, Luděk Bufka, Elisa Belotti, Jörg Müller, Jörg Müller, Helmut Küchenhoff, Klara Zeis, Marco Heurich   +7 more
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Collective Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems: How Predator Confusion Shapes Swarm-Like Behaviors [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
Popular hypotheses about the origins of collective adaptation are related to two basic behaviours: protection from predators and a combined search for food resources. Among the anti-predator explanations, the predator confusion hypothesis suggests that groups of individuals moving in a swarm aim to overwhelm the predator while the dilution of risk ...
arxiv  

Tearing Out the Income Tax by the (Grass)Roots [PDF]

, 2011
Landscapes are increasingly fragmented, and conservation programs have started to look at network approaches for maintaining populations at a larger scale. We present an agent-based model of predator–prey dynamics where the agents (i.e.
A Hastings, A Linhares, AR Ives, B Blasius, B Breckling, B Luttberg, BM Bolker, CC Ioannou, D Urban, DL Benson, DL DeAngelis, DL Urban, E Estrada, E McCauley, E Nonaka, EH Nelson, ES Minor, ES Minor, F Michalski, HN Cominsa, IR Fischhoff, J Terborgh, JA Hilty, Jacopo A. Baggio, JD Rougharden, JD Rougharden, JF McLaughlin, KA Hovel, KA With, Kehinde Salau, KM Cuddington, L da Fontoura Costa, L Fahrig, L Pascual-Hortal, MA Ortega-Huerta, Marco A. Janssen, MD Holland, Michael L. Schoon, P Coppolillo, P Crucitti, P Inchausti, P Kareiva, S Boccaletti, S Creel, SL Lima, V Grimm, V Grimm, VAA Jansen, WG Wilson, WS Cleveland, WS Cleveland, Ö Bodin, Örjan Bodin   +52 more
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The Role of Central Complex Neurons in Prey Detection and Tracking in the Freely Moving Praying Mantis (Tenodera sinensis)

Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2022
Complex tasks like hunting moving prey in an unpredictable environment require high levels of motor and sensory integration. An animal needs to detect and track suitable prey objects, measure their distance and orientation relative to its own position ...
Anne Wosnitza, Joshua P. Martin, Alan J. Pollack, Gavin J. Svenson, Roy E. Ritzmann   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A dominant predator, a predator, and a prey

Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2008
A two-predator, one-prey model in which one predator interferes significantly with the other predator is analyzed. The dominant predator is harvested and the other predator has an alternative food source. The response functions used are Holling type II and they are predator-dependent and include the effects of interference.
openaire   +4 more sources

Behavioural compatibility, not fear, best predicts the looking patterns of chacma baboons

Communications Biology
Animal vigilance is often investigated under a narrow set of scenarios, but this approach may overestimate its contribution to animal lives. A solution may be to sample all looking behaviours and investigate numerous competing hypotheses in a single ...
Andrew T. L. Allan, Laura R. LaBarge, Annie L. Bailey, Benjamin Jones, Zachary Mason, Thomas Pinfield, Felix Schröder, Alex Whitaker, Amy F. White, Henry Wilkinson, Russell A. Hill   +10 more
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Effects of chronic browsing on life‐history traits of an irruptive large herbivore population

Population Ecology, EarlyView.
This study aimed to determine the relationship between diet quality, body mass, and size (hind foot length), and female reproduction and sought to identify the mechanism by which high density under severe food limitations is maintained. Our results demonstrated that sika deer introduced to Nakanoshima Island have maintained high densities through high ...
Koichi Kaji, Kazutaka M. Takeshita, Hiroshi Takahashi, Hiromasa Igota, Mayumi Ueno, Yukiko Matsuura, Takashi Ikeda, Ryo Yoshizawa, Hino Takafumi, Tsuyoshi Yoshida   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source