Long-term behavioural consistency in prey capture but not in web maintenance in a social spider

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1019-1028

  Beleyur, Thejasvi ^a   Bellur, Divya Uma ^a,b   Somanathan, Hema ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b AZIM PREMJI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Animal personality; Behavioural consistency; Behavioural syndrome; Plasticity; Social spider; Stegodyphus sarasinorum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937760638     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-015-1915-z     Document Type: Article

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