Predation exerts a significant selection pressure on prey, shaping a multitude of traits that
serve as antipredator defences. In turn, natural selection could favour combinations of …

Functional constraints between different types of antipredator behavior should be common,
especially if they are on the opposite sides of the behavioral spectrum such as flight and …

When captured, many prey respond by biting the predator or struggling to get free. However,
one indirect escape option is death feigning (DF), in which complete immobility supposedly …

Philoctetes, son of Poeas, was a mythical character better known as friend of Hercules and
hero who participated in the Trojan War. However, on the journey to Troy, Achaeans …

Although hissing is a common strategy of defence used by snakes, especially of the
Phytonidae and Boidae families, few studies have described in detail the acoustics …