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Embryonic background risk promotes the survival of tadpoles facing surface predators.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2018
Crane Adam L, Chivers Douglas P, Ferrari Maud C O
Abstract excerpt
Exposure to intense predation risk can induce morphological and behavioural phenotypes that prepare prey, often at young ages, for surviving attacks from unknown predators. However, previous studies revealed that this survival advantage depended on the predator species. Here, we used alarm cues from injured conspecifics to simulate a period of high predation risk for embryonic wood frogs, Lithobates sylvaticus....
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