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SUBMITTER: Hughes AR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4083791 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hughes A Randall AR Mann David A DA Kimbro David L DL
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20140801 1788
The risk of predation can have large effects on ecological communities via changes in prey behaviour, morphology and reproduction. Although prey can use a variety of sensory signals to detect predation risk, relatively little is known regarding the effects of predator acoustic cues on prey foraging behaviour. Here we show that an ecologically important marine crab species can detect sound across a range of frequencies, probably in response to particle acceleration. Further, crabs suppress their ...[more]