Antipredator benefits from heterospecifics

Eben Goodale; Graeme D. Ruxton

doi:10.1016/B978-0-443-29068-8.00102-1

Antipredator benefits from heterospecifics

Eben Goodale, Graeme D. Ruxton

Department of Health and Environmental Sciences

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Abstract

Animals can use other prey species to reduce their risk of predation. Benefits can be in the form of information, or in physical protection from the predator, and can have a range of consequences for how closely the prey species interact. Animals can eavesdrop on other nearby species’ alarm signals or cues. Animals may also temporarily join other species to mob predators, or associate more stably with other species in mixed-species groups, lowering competition and/or individual predation risk. Such interactions climax in sets of species supplying and receiving predation-related benefits that are usually or always found together.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Reference Module in Life Sciences
Subtitle of host publication	Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Third Edition
Publisher	Elsevier
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-29068-8.00102-1
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 13 Feb 2025

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