Innate prey preference overridden by familiarisation with detrimental prey in a specialised myrmecophagous predator

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Authors

PEKÁR Stanislav CARDENAS GUERRERO Manuel

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Naturwissenschaften
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Faculty of Science

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-015-1257-8
Field Zoology
Keywords spiders; specialist; myrmecophagy
Description Prey-specialised spiders often do not have brood care and may not deposit eggs in the proximity of the preferred prey. Thus, naive spiderlings are left to their own to find their focal prey. Our aim was to reveal whether the choice of a specific prey is innate and whether familiarisation with a certain prey will condition prey choice.
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