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Hunting Activity Among Naturalistically Housed Chimpanzees <em>(</em><em>Pan troglodytes)</em> at the Fundació Mona (Girona, Spain). Predation, Occasional Consumption and Strategies in Rehabilitated Animals

open access: yesAnimals, 2012
Predatory behavior in wild chimpanzees and other primates has been well documented over the last 30 years. However, as it is an opportunistic behavior, conditions which may promote such behavior are left up to chance.
Olga Feliu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Defensive aggregation (huddling) in Rattus norvegicus toward predator odor: individual differences, social buffering effects and neural correlates. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
Aggregation is a defensive strategy employed by many prey species in response to predatory threat. Our group has characterized defensive aggregation (huddling) in Rattus norvegicus in response to a ball of cat fur. In this situation some rats huddle less,
Michael T Bowen   +5 more
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Embracing Their Prey at That Dark Hour: Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) Can Hunt in Nighttime Light Conditions

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2020
Cuttlefish are highly efficient predators, which strongly rely on their anterior binocular visual field for hunting and prey capture. Their complex eyes possess adaptations for low light conditions.
Melanie Brauckhoff   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rippling Is a Predatory Behavior in Myxococcus xanthus [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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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«Publish or Perish» in Russian Social Sciences: Co-Authorship Patterns in Non-Problematic and Predatory Journals

open access: yesВопросы 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
doaj   +1 more source

THE CRA IMPLICATIONS OF PREDATORY LENDING [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This article considers the Community Reinvestment Act\u27s role in combating predatory lending. It provides an overview of the CRA, explains how CRA-covered lenders may enable predatory lending and explores the relationship between the CRA, federal ...
Engel, Kathleen C., McCoy, Patricia A.
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Perch, Perca fluviatilis show a directional preference for, but do not increase attacks toward, prey in response to water-borne cortisol [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 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
doaj   +2 more sources

The influence of camouflage and prey type on predatory decisions of jumping spider [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Decisions made by predators during predatory encounters are often based on multiple factors that may influence the outcome of the encounters. For stalking predators their visibility to the prey and the ability of their prey to escape may be important ...
Bartos Maciej
core   +1 more source

ESTUDO PRELIMINAR DE PARADIGMA DE ESTRESSE PREDATÓRIO PARA INDUÇÃO DE ANSIEDADE EM CAMUNDONGOS SWISS

open access: yesMulti-Science Journal, 2018
In this study we modified the predatory stress paradigms to determine if a simple and new predatory stress paradigm could produce anxiety-like behaviour  in  female Swiss  mice, exposed to male Wistar rat.
Joyce Moreira de Souza   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predatory Behavior of Yellow Baboons [PDF]

open access: yesBehaviour, 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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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