The effects of predator learning, forgetting, and recognition errors on the evolution of warning coloration

Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 751-763

  Servedio, Maria R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aposematism; Evolution; Forgetting; Learning; Model; Taste aversion; Warning color

Indexed keywords

APOSEMATISM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LEARNING; PREDATION; RECOGNITION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033926836     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb00077.x     Document Type: Article

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