Hairiness and warning colours as components of antipredator defence: additive or interactive benefits?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1703-1713

  Lindstedt, C ^a   Lindstrom L ^a   Mappes, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

aposematism; multicomponent defence; Parasemia plantaginis; predation

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; AVOIDANCE REACTION; HAIR; LARVA; LEARNING; MOTH; PATCH SIZE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PIGMENT; POULTRY; PREDATION RISK; SIZE; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; LEPIDOPTERA; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 42049106826     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.10.024     Document Type: Article

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