Innate colour preferences and flexible colour learning in the pipevine swallowtail
Article Abstract:
A study was conducted on innate color preferences and color learning ability in the pipevine swallowtail butterfly. Results showed that yellow is the innately preferred color. These butterflies were able to associate floral color with nectar rewards in yellow and magenta within 10 flower visits. Discrimination towards the rewarding color increased with experience. Moreover, foraging behavior readily shifted to a change in reward distribution.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1997
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Predatory wasps learn to overcome the shelter defences of their larval prey
Article Abstract:
The involvement of learning in the development of the ability of Polistes wasps to forage successfully on sheltered Epargyreus clarus larvae was examined. The results suggest that invertebrate predators can learn to overcome their prey's defences and are therefore able to make use of previously inaccessible prey.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2004
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Colour learning in two behavioral contexts: how much can a butterfly keep in mind?
Article Abstract:
A study was conducted to examine the ability of butterflies to learn colour cues in two different behavioral contexts, nectar foraging and oviposition, more or less simultaneously. The results from the study revealed that butterflies could learn it in two behavioral contexts within a short span of time.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2003
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Careers and Recruitment: Clouded vision. Setting the record straight. Alpine thaw breaks ice over permafrost's role
- Abstracts: Extreme reversed sexual size dimorphism in the extinct New Zealand moa Dinornis. The evolution of reproductive isolation through sexual conflict
- Abstracts: Mate attractiveness and primary resource allocation in the zebra finch
- Abstracts: Effect of body weight, antler length, resource value and experience on fight duration and intensity in fallow deer
- Abstracts: Mating strategies of topi bulls: getting in the centre of attention. Evolution of periodicity in insect mate-seeking behavior: a male-female coevolutionary game model