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Wie Räuber ihre Beutetiere auswählen

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Some aspects of the general importance that studies of prediation have for a quantitative approach to problems of evolution are outlined. A specific study permits one to assess the principles of prey selection in a stickleback predator molding adaptive swarm formation in prey. Another study demonstrates an innate rejection of diverse edible prey in certain individuals of a lizard predator. The latter results necessitate an explanation apart from the accepted theory of Darwinian selection.

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  1. Arbeitsgruppe für Verhaltensforschung, Abteilung für Biologie, der Ruhr-Universität, D-4630, Bochum

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Vgl. auch E. Curio: The Ethology of Predation, Springer-Verlag 1976.

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Curio, E. Wie Räuber ihre Beutetiere auswählen. Naturwissenschaften 64, 575–578 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00450636

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