Habitat-contingent reproductive behaviour in radio-implanted salamanders: a model and test
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Tiger salamanders, Ambystoma tigrinum, utilizing a small pond as a habitat were monitored during the breeding season using radio-implants to determine the difference between the reproductive behavior of tiger salamanders in their natural habitat and that in the laboratory. Most of the observed behavior was consistent with the predictions based on an extended model that took reproductive strategies and differential use of habitat during the reproductive cycle into account.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1998
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To avoid or not to avoid? Factors influencing the discrimination of predator diet cues by a terrestrial salamander
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The influence of genetic relatedness (degree of genetic similarity between prey) and ecological relatedness (degree of refuge and trophic overlap between synoptic prey) on the evolution of predator-diet discrimination in red-backed salamanders, Plethodon cinereus is tested. Both genetic and ecological relatedness play a role in the evolution of predator-diet discrimination in red-backed salamanders.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2005
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A chemically mediated trade-off between predation risk and mate search in newts
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A new study tests the attraction of adult male red-spotted newts to different combinations and concentrations of male newt extract and gravid female odour in wild and captive populations.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2001
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