Author(s): Feyten LEA; Demers EEM; Ramnarine IW; Brown GE;

Neophobic predator avoidance, where prey actively avoid novel stimuli, is thought to allow prey to cope with the inability to predict predation risk (i.e. uncertainty) while reducing the costs associated with learning. Recent studies suggest that neophobia is elicited as a response to unpredictable and elevated mean predation risk, and is linked to experi ...

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Author(s): Feyten LEA, Demers EEM, Ramnarine IW, Brown GE

Curr Zool. 2019 Feb;65(1):75-76 Authors: Feyten LEA, Demers EEM, Ramnarine IW, Brown GE PMID: 30697241 [PubMed]

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