Optimal-foraging predator favors commensalistic Batesian mimicry

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Honma, Atsushi ^a   Takakura, Koh Ichi ^b   Nishida, Takayoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMENSALISM; ECOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MEMORY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREDICTION; PREY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIMULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 54849413812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003411     Document Type: Article

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