The functional significance of aposematic signals: geographic variation in the responses of widespread lizard predators to colourful invertebrate prey.

The functional significance of aposematic signals: geographic variation in the responses of widespread lizard predators to colourful invertebrate prey.

Conspicuous colouration can evolve as a primary defence mechanism that advertises unprofitability and discourages predatory attacks. Geographic overlap is a primary determinant of whether individual predators encounter, and thus learn to avoid, such aposematic prey. We experimentally tested whether...

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Main Authors: Hui-Yun Tseng, Chung-Ping Lin, Jung-Ya Hsu, David A Pike, Wen-San Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3948897?pdf=render

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