Sex, intimidation and severed limbs: The effect of simulated predator attack and limb autotomy on calling and emergence behaviour in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 674-681

  Bateman, Philip W ^a   Fleming, Patricia A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustic behaviour; Autotomy; Gryllus bimaculatus; Predation

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; AUTOTOMY; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CRICKET; EMERGENCE;

GRYLLIDAE; GRYLLINAE; GRYLLUS BIMACULATUS;

EID: 32144449033     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-005-0096-6     Document Type: Article

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