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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Secondary Defenses"”.
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The Ontogeny of Escape Responses and Locomotor Performance in Sceloporus Woodi
… Other than crypsis, prey species also use secondary defenses when detected by a predator. The most common secondary defense is flight. Flight initiation distance describes the distance between a prey item and a predator where the benefits of fleeing outweigh the benefits of remaining …
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Impacts And Implications Of Polytypism On The Evolution Of Aposematic Coloration
… predators of the risks of predation due to a secondary defense. Theoretical, lab, and field experiments have demonstrated that individuals who project novel conspicuous signals should experience disproportionately high predation pressure as predators will not associate novel signals with a …