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On Predator Selection against Abnormalities of Movement A Test of an Hypothesis 1

Author(s) -

Milinski Manfred,

Löwenstein Christine

Publication year - 1980

Publication title -

zeitschrift für tierpsychologie

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.739

H-Index - 74

eISSN - 1439-0310

pISSN - 0044-3573

DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1980.tb01057.x

Subject(s) - predation , predator , selection (genetic algorithm) , mechanism (biology) , biology , movement (music) , psychology , zoology , test (biology) , ecology , communication , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , computer science , philosophy , epistemology , aesthetics

If debilitated prey items can be caught more efficiently than healthy ones, there is a selective advantage for predators to detect any weakness in their prey. This study investigates whether three‐spined sticklebacks (Gastcrosteus aculeatus L.) accustomed to feeding on one or the other of two types of waterfleas differing in their swimming pattern capture the unfamiliar type when given a choice. Such sequential oddity selection might serve as a mechanism for the detection of sick prey.

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