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Watch Out for Your Neighbor: Climbing onto Shrubs Is Related to Risk of Cannibalism in the Scorpion Buthus cf. occitanus

The distribution and behavior of foraging animals usually imply a balance between resource availability and predation risk. In some predators such as scorpions, cannibalism constitutes an important mortality factor determining their ecology and behavior. Climbing on vegetation by scorpions has been...

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Autores principales: Sánchez-Piñero, Francisco, Urbano-Tenorio, Fernando
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5031422/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27655347
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161747