Perch, Perca fluviatilis show a directional preference for, but do not increase attacks toward, prey in response to water-borne cortisol [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 In freshwater environments, chemosensory cues play an important role in predator-prey interactions. Prey use a variety of chemosensory cues to detect and avoid predators.
Lindsay J. Henderson +2 more
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Вопросы образования, 2022 Publication-based metrics have caused a number of strategic responses regarding scientists’ publication practices, including involvement in questionable research practices.
Katerina Guba, Nikita Slovogorodsky
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Rippling Is a Predatory Behavior in Myxococcus xanthus [PDF]
Journal of Bacteriology, 2006 ABSTRACT Cells of Myxococcus xanthus will, at times, organize their movement such that macroscopic traveling waves, termed ripples, are formed as groups of cells glide together on a solid surface. The reason for this behavior has long been a mystery, but we demonstrate here that rippling is a feeding ...
James E, Berleman +3 more
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Behavioral and Epileptic Determinants of Predatory Attack Behavior in the Cat [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques, 1975 SUMMARY:This report presents studies which relate limbic epileptic excitability to behavioral measures of defensive suppression of predatory attack in cats. Correlated with heightened defensiveness to environmental stimuli among non-killer cats is a heightened amygdaloid epileptic excitability, as well as a heightened conduction of amygdaloid epileptic
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Predatory Publishers’ Spam Emails as a Symptom of the Multiple Vulnerabilities in Academia
, 2023 This chapter analyzes a large corpus of spam emails spanning a six-year period (2016–2021) with the following two main goals: firstly, to uncover the linguistic features of these texts, and secondly, to connect the linguistic and textual analysis with ...
Soler, Josep,, Wang, Ying
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Tropical House Gecko (Hemidactylus mabouia) predation on brown spiders (Loxosceles intermedia)
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2004 Brown spiders (Loxosceles spp.) are venomous arachnids, successfully adapted to urban habitats in Brazil. Loxoscelism became a serious public health problem in Paraná State, especially at the capital Curitiba, where the most abundant species is ...
E.N. Ramires, G.M. Fraguas
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Predatory Behavior of Yellow Baboons [PDF]
Behaviour, 1976 Abstract1. A group of 32 yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus) in the Masai-Amboseli National Park, Kenya, caught and ate 45 vertebrate prey items during 2519.19 hours of observation. 2. Eighty percent of the prey items were mammals and the most frequently eaten species were African hares (Lepus capensis), vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) and ...
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Consumption and handling time of Euborellia annulipes and Marava arachidis (Dermaptera: Anisolabididae) on Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of BiologySpodoptera frugiperda is one of the pests that causes the most damage to corn, with chemical control being the main method. However, the increase in cases of resistance emphasizes the need for alternative methods, such to the biological control.
A. Maddalena +9 more
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Verified and potential pathogens of predatory mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) [PDF]
, 2008 Several species of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae), including species of the genera Amblyseius, Galendromus, Metaseiulus, Neoseiulus, Phytoseiulus and Typhlodromus, are currently reared for biological control of various crop pests and/or as model ...
Marcel Dicke +3 more
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Prey Capture, Ingestion, and Digestion Dynamics of Octopus vulgaris Paralarvae Fed Live Zooplankton
Frontiers in Physiology, 2017 Octopus vulgaris is a species of great interest in research areas such as neurobiology, ethology, and ecology but also a candidate species for aquaculture as a food resource and for alleviating the fishing pressure on its wild populations.
Manuel Nande +5 more
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