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    Anti-predator adaptations are mechanisms developed through evolution that assist prey organisms in their constant struggle against predators. Throughout...
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    other predators are present. In addition to behavioral adaptations, there are also morphological anti-predator adaptations to pursuit predators. For example...
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    prevalence of food during these hours. It may also serve as an anti-predator adaptation by allowing animals to sit between the brink of danger that may...
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  • a selective advantage as predators avoid the model and therefore also the mimic. Mimicry is thus an anti-predator adaptation. A common example seen in...
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    Predator satiation (less commonly called predator saturation) is an anti-predator adaptation in which prey briefly occur at high population densities,...
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  • of adaptation that promotes the survivability of an organism by protecting it from its natural enemies, such as predators (Anti-predator adaptation) or...
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    whereas anti-predator camouflage colour changes have decreased relative to the native source population in Kenya where there are more predators. Chameleons...
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    Mobbing (animal behavior) (category Antipredator adaptations)
    Mobbing in animals is an anti-predator adaptation in which individuals of prey species cooperatively attack or harass a predator, usually to protect their...
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  • good reduces the worth of each individual unit of it Predator satiation, an anti-predator adaptation involving high population densities of the prey Semantic...
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    swaying of leaves and branches. This adaptation assists the goliath stick insect in avoiding detection by predators. In response to being attacked or disturbed...
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    Beetles use a variety of anti-predator adaptations to defend themselves. These include camouflage and mimicry against predators that hunt by sight, toxicity...
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    fact being animals. Their natural camouflage makes them difficult for predators to detect; still, many species have one of several secondary lines of...
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    a new direction. Flies have rapid reflexes that aid their escape from predators but their sustained flight speeds are low. Dolichopodid flies in the genus...
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    Their hard shells are assumed by zoologists to have evolved as an anti-predator adaptation. One group of stalked barnacles has adapted to a rafting lifestyle...
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    remove a substance on the ant. Ants produce formic acid as an anti-predator adaptation. Thus, when an ant feels threatened, as when in the beak of a bird...
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  • glands that contain a powerful nerve poison, tetrodotoxin, as an anti-predator adaptation. Throughout much of the newt's range, the common garter snake is...
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    practise autotomy, self-amputating the tail, presumably as an anti-predator adaptation. All captured R. russellii over 1.5 m long have autotomized tails;...
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    harvest susceptibility. Pursuit predation Pack hunting Trophic level Anti-predator adaptation A. V. Shubkina, Aleksey Sergeevich Severtsov, K V Chepeleva (February...
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    a defensive odor reminiscent of toffee. Males may attempt to startle predators by flashing their wings open. E. tiaratum makes use of both passive and...
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    Orussoidea are parasitic. Predators include birds, insects and small animals. The larvae of some species have anti-predator adaptations such as regurgitating...
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  • this movie, inspired from biology of real-life creatures such as anti-predator adaptation of bombardier beetle and poison glands of vipers, was used in later...
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    elements and from predators, with some animals having features such as spines or camouflage serving exclusively as anti-predator adaptations. Many animals...
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    sciences portal Biology portal Anti-predator adaptation – Defensive feature of prey for selective advantage Apex predator – Predator at the top of a food chain...
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    lengths as needed. For these freshwater snails, the siphon is an anti-predator adaptation. It reduces their vulnerability to being attacked and eaten by...
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    serves as an anti-predator adaptation: when grabbed by a predator fish, the hagfish ejects copious amounts of slime into the predator's mouth, causing...
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    Deimatic behaviour (category Antipredator adaptations)
    deimatic and aposematic, if it both startles a predator and indicates the presence of anti-predator adaptations. Vertebrates including several species of frog...
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  • Autothysis (category Antipredator adaptations)
    deterring vertebrate predators from eating the ants, because these products are inedible. Animal suicide Anti-predator adaptation Apoptosis Autohaemorrhaging...
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    altruism – anagenesis – anti-predator adaptation – applications of evolution – apomorphy – aposematism – Archaeopteryx – aquatic adaptation – artificial selection...
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    A speciation gene for left-right reversal in snails results in anti-predator adaptation. Nature Communications 1:133. Ota H, Lin JT, Hirata T, Chen SL...
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    against predation by fish and other aquatic inhabitants. Another anti-predator adaptation in the apple snail genera Pomacea and Pila, is the tubular siphon...
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