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Exposure to lead (Pb) contamination paradoxically heightens predator avoidance behaviours in an urban bird

2024-07-11

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To survive, prey animals must correctly assess and respond to predation, by vigilantly scanning their environment for threats, assessing predation risk through gaze aversion (responding fearfully to predator gaze), and escaping efficiently. As these anti-predatory behaviours are integrated through the nervous and motor systems, they could be disrupted by neurotoxic contaminants, such as lead (Pb), which is ubiquit...

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Literature Corpus work: e6690116-7072-5b2b-99aa-f61be9f51393
DOI: 10.32942/x20612

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