Attending to detail by communal spider-eating spiders

Animal Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 461-471

  Jackson, Robert R ^a,b   Nelson, Ximena J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Araneophagy; Communal predation; Decision making; Foraging; Perception; Predatory tactics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDERS;

ARANEAE; OECOBIIDAE; OECOBIUS; PORTIA AFRICANA; SALTICIDAE;

EID: 84862595370     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-012-0469-y     Document Type: Article

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