Deimatic Display in the European Swallowtail Butterfly as a Secondary Defence against Attacks from Great Tits

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Olofsson, Martin ^a   Eriksson, Stephan ^a   Jakobsson, Sven ^a   Wiklund, Christer ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BIRD; BUTTERFLY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEIMATIC DISPLAY; NONHUMAN; PALATABILITY; PREDATOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; RISK REDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STARTLE DISPLAY; SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; PASSERIFORMES; PIGMENTATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; WING;

EID: 84867318529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047092     Document Type: Article

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