Linking predator risk and uncertainty to adaptive forgetting: A theoretical framework and empirical test using tadpoles

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1691, 2010, Pages 2205-2210

  Ferrari, Maud C O ^a   Brown, Grant E ^b   Bortolotti, Gary R ^a   Chivers, Douglas P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive forgetting; Antipredator behaviour; Decision making; Information use; Learning; Predator recognition; Wood frog Rana sylvatica

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; AVOIDANCE REACTION; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FROG; LEARNING; MEMORY; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RECOGNITION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954946733     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.2117     Document Type: Article

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