multipredator hypothesis

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Assumes that antipredator adaptations evolve together and thus prey may respond to extinct predators as long as they have experience with other predators.

multipredator hypothesis

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Publications (6)

Marmots do not consistently use their left eye to respond to an approaching threat but those that did fled sooner

Prey responses to predatorâ€™s sounds: a review and empirical study.

Do mule deer respond to the sounds of their predators?

A test of the multipredator hypothesis: yellow-bellied marmots respond fearfully to the sight of novel and extinct predators

Olfactory predator discrimination in yellow-bellied marmots

Natural security: a darwinian approach to a dangerous world

Related Concepts (10)

flush early and avoid the rush (FEAR) hypothesis

alarm calling

playback experiments

vigilance behavior

habituation

evolutionary experience

relaxed selection

experience-independent mechanism

hemispheric lateralization

Risk assessment

Frequently Associated Species

Marmota

Canis latrans

Yellow-bellied Marmot

Odocoileus

Puma concolor

Canis lupus

Aquila chrysaetos

Vulpes vulpes

Mustela

Buteo jamaicensis