Science news articles about 'predator avoidance'

... influence different behaviours including foraging, mate choice, and predator avoidance. Several recent papers have shown reduced learning abilities in infected insects. However, it is ...

Woodland bat species avoid bright lights and may go hungry or get picked off by ... come out in the light if they're starving, if they have to. Indeed, predator avoidance is probably the main reason why ...

... they fly in lit conditions," Jones said. "Indeed, predator avoidance is probably the main reason why ... in very dark conditions. They seem to be hardwired to avoid light." In the new study, PhD student ...

... ' capability to perceive visual information." For bats, vision is important for foraging and homing, and for predator avoidance. Mesopic vision (at light levels that stimulate both the rods and the ...

... – start to erode over time. "Things like alertness, having to run fast, having to fly — many predator avoidance traits end up being useless to those animals," Lahti says. Under an evolutionary ...

... defense mechanism to visually match a component of their natural environment, which facilitates predator avoidance," Klooster said. "We have now experimentally demonstrated that plants have evolved ...