Juvenile toads avoid chemical cues from snake predators
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The ability of post-metamorphic juvenile bufonoids to detect and avoid chemical cues from their predators was investigated. Predator avoidance in juvenile toads (Bufo sp.) involves more than one stimulus, including detection of predator chemical cues. Bufo cognatus and B. microscaphus avoided paper towels with snake chemical cues. Juvenile toads detection of the chemical cues from snake species that attack them is a great influence on their survival however, it is not a generalized response for other reptile predators.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1997
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Lateralized prey-catching responses in the cane toad, Bufo marinus: Analysis of complex visual stimuli
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An attempt is made to test the responses of Bufo marimus to prey stimuli of varying visual complexity that are removed around the toads in either a clockwise or anticlockwise direction at 1.7 revolution/min. The conclusion states that lateralized predatory responses occur for considered decisions on whether or not to respond to complex insect-like stimuli, but not for decisions on complementary simple stimuli.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2004
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Juvenile western toads, Bufo boreas, avoid chemical cues of snakes fed juvenile, but not larval, conspecifics
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Research is presented describing the use of laboratory choice tests to investigate the avoidance response of juvenile western toads to four different chemical stimuli, comprising snakes fed juvenile conspecifics, live conspecific juveniles, snakes fed larval conspecifics, live earthworms.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2000
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