Spiderweb smokescreens: Spider trickster uses background noise to mask stalking movements

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 313-326

  Wilcox, R Stimson ^a   Jackson, Robert R ^b   Gentile, Kristen ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; JUMPING SPIDER; MOVEMENT; OPPORTUNISTIC BEHAVIOUR; SMOKESCREEEN BEHAVIOUR; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; PORTIA AFRICANA; PORTIA FIMBRIATA; PORTIA LABIATA; PORTIA SCHULTZI;

EID: 0029667593     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0031     Document Type: Article

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