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Convergence and divergence in anti-predator displays: A novel approach to quantitative behavioural comparison in snakes

2019-11-21

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Animals in nature use diverse strategies to evade or deter their predators, including many vivid behavioural displays only qualitatively described from field encounters with natural predators or humans. Within venomous snake mimicry, stereotyped anti-predator displays are suggested to be a critical component of the warning signal given by toxic models and thus under strong selection for independent convergence in...

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Literature Corpus work: b1464884-4dea-5a8e-a076-486f0fc3a1df
DOI: 10.1101/849703

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