Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Lucon-Xiccato T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5014046 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lucon-Xiccato Tyrone T Chivers Douglas P DP Mitchell Matthew D MD Ferrari Maud C O MC
Biology letters 20160801 8
Due to the costs of antipredator behaviour, prey have the ability to finely modulate their response according to the risk they have experienced, and adjust it over different scales of ecological time. Information on which to base their responses can be obtained from direct experience, but also indirectly from nearby conspecifics. In aquatic environments, alarm cues from injured conspecifics are an important and reliable source of information about current predation risk. We used wood frog tadpol ...[more]