Paper Antipredatory reaction of the leopard gecko Eublepharis macularius to snake predators

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Antipredatory reaction of the leopard gecko Eublepharis macularius to snake predators - Antipredatory reaction leopard gecko

Ability to recognize a risk of predation and react with adaptive antipredatory behavior can enhance fitness, but has some costs as well. Animals can either specifically react on the most dangerous predators (threat-sensitive avoidance) or they have safe but costly general wariness avoiding all potential predators. The level of threat may depend on the predator’s foraging ecology and distribution with the prey with sympatric and specialist species being the most dangerous. We used 2 choice...

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