Prey or predator? Body size of an approaching animal affects decisions to attack or escape

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1278-1284

  Cooper, William E ^a   Stankowich, Theodore ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

body size; escape behavior; flight initiation distance; foraging behavior; Squamata

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DECISION MAKING; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LIZARD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; ORTHOPTERA; SCELOPORUS JARROVII; SQUAMATA;

EID: 78649358323     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq142     Document Type: Article

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