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Masquerading predators deceive prey by aggressively mimicking bird droppings in a crab spider

In aggressive mimicry, a predator accesses prey by mimicking the appearance and/or behavior of a harmless or beneficial model in order to avoid being correctly identified by its prey. The crab spider genus Phrynarachne is often cited as a textbook example of masquerading as bird droppings (BDs) in o...

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Autores principales: Yu, Long, Xu, Xin, Zhang, Zengtao, Painting, Christina J, Yang, Xiaodong, Li, Daiqin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9113284/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35592341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoab060