Fine‐tuned responses to chemical landscapes: crayfish use predator odors to assess threats based on relative size ratios
Abstract The threat‐sensitive predator avoidance hypothesis suggests that prey animals should minimize the costs of antipredator behaviors by only responding to predators that pose a potentially lethal threat. Thus, prey must use risk assessment strategies to determine which predators present a grea...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Ecosphere |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3188 |