Stalking decisions of web‐invading araneophagic jumping spiders from australia, azerbaijan, israel, kenya, portugal, and sri lanka: The opportunistic smokescreen tactics of brettus, cocalus, cyrba, and portia

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-30

  Cerveira, Ana M ^a   Jackson, Robert R ^a   Guseinov, Elchin F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b Ministry of Science and Education Republic of Azerbaijan   (Azerbaijan)

Author keywords

Cognition; Predation; Salticidae; Spiders; Vision

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY CAPTURE; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; INSECTA; PORTIA; SALTICIDAE;

EID: 0037494942     PISSN: 03014223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2003.9518321     Document Type: Article

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