Attention focusing in a sit-and-wait forager: A spider controls its prey-detection ability in different web sectors by adjusting thread tension

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1678, 2010, Pages 29-33

  Nakata, Kensuke ^a  

^a TOKYO KEIZAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attention; Foraging; Orb web; Sense; Spider

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREY SELECTION; SPIDER; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION FOCUSING; FEMALE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIDER;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; CYCLOSA OCTOTUBERCULATA;

EID: 73949086069     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1583     Document Type: Article

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