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multipredator hypothesis

Scope: population ecology
Papers: 3 | Mentions: 3

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Definition

Assumes that antipredator adaptations evolve together and thus prey may respond to extinct predators as long as they have experience with other predators.

Publications (3)

article

A test of the multipredator hypothesis: yellow-bellied marmots respond fearfully to the sight of novel and extinct predators

2009Animal Behaviourcentral
article

Olfactory predator discrimination in yellow-bellied marmots

2008Ethologyreferenced
chapter

Natural security: a darwinian approach to a dangerous world

2008central

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