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  Sticklebacks benefit from closer predator inspection: an experimental test of risk assessment

Häberli, M. A., Aeschlimann, P. B., & Milinski, M. (2005). Sticklebacks benefit from closer predator inspection: an experimental test of risk assessment. Ethology Ecology & Evolution, 17(3), 249-259.

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Häberli, M. A.1, Author           
Aeschlimann, P. B.1, Author           
Milinski, M.1, Author           
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1Department Evolutionary Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Society, ou_1445634              

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Free keywords: Gasterosteus; predator; inspection; predation risk; assessment; foraging
 Abstract: Small fish often approach and "inspect" a detected predator from a short distance. This apparently paradoxical behaviour has been shown experimentally to incur a risk of death. To have a net benefit predator inspection behaviour must be advantageous. We tested experimentally whether a closer inspection distance per se provides inspecting three-spined sticlebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) with more information about a pike's (Esox lucius) hunger state. This prediction was confirmed: test fish that had been assigned to a close inspection distance started foraging earlier after they had inspected a satiated pike compared to those that had inspected a hungry pike. The fish could not assess the pike's hunger state as precisely from a far inspection distance. This was shown by a significant interaction between hunger state of the pike and inspection distance on the time to start foraging. The sticklebacks used the information gained from inspecting the predator because they attacked their own prey more frequently after they had inspected a satiated pike. This effect was most apparent when the fish attackeda high Daphnia density (which impairs vigilance) more frequently after they had seen a satiated pike from a close distance.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2005-10
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Title: Ethology Ecology & Evolution
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 17 (3) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 249 - 259 Identifier: ISSN: 0394-9370