The re-emergence of felid camouflage with the decay of predator recognition in deer under relaxed selection

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1607, 2007, Pages 175-182

  Stankowich, Theodore ^a,b,c   Coss, Richard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Camouflage; Deer; Jaguar; Predator recognition; Puma; Relaxed selection

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; ARMS RACE; CARNIVORE; DECOMPOSITION; DEER; FELID; HUNTING; LOCAL EXTINCTION; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RECOGNITION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DEER; FELIDAE; MODEL; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUMA; RECOGNITION; TIGER; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; GENETIC SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; FELIDAE; PANTHERA PARDUS;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CUES; DEER; ESCAPE REACTION; EVOLUTION; FELIDAE; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELECTION (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33847608740     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3716     Document Type: Article

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