Differential behavioural flexibility in response to predation risk in native and introduced tropical savannah rodents

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• 作者：Rickard Abom ; ^{rickard.abom1@jcu.edu.au} ; Lin Schwarzkopf
• 关键词：antipredator behaviour ; giving-up densities ; Mus musculus domesticus ; optimal foraging ; Pseudomys gracilicaudatus ; Pseudonaja textilis ; snakes
• 刊名：Animal Behaviour
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：122
• 期：Complete
• 页码：117-124
• 全文大小：739 K
• 卷排序：122

文摘

Eastern chestnut and house mice foraged more in grass when snakes were absent. Eastern chestnut mice foraged more in the open when snakes were present. Non-native house mice foraged less under cover in the presence of snakes. Thus, native eastern chestnut mice are able to adjust antipredator behaviour.