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- adjective That provides a
defence againstpredation orpredators
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Examples
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"We were surprised to find that spotted bowerbirds weren't only mimicking predators given that mimicry in this species has been previously described as an anti-predator behaviour."
BBC News - Home 2011
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The relationship between infectivity of Schistocephalus solidus Cestoda and anti-predator behavior of its intermediate host, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The relationship between infectivity of Schistocephalus solidus Cestoda and anti-predator behavior of its intermediate host, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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It was until now believed that nocturnally migrating songbirds, while venturing into the unfamiliar night sky for accomplishing their long, challenging trans-continental migrations, could at least release anti-predator vigilance thanks to the concealment of darkness.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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The relationship between infectivity of Schistocephalus solidus Cestoda and anti-predator behavior of its intermediate host, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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While it's true that parents can give their children anti-predator lessons, realize that parents account for one-third of molested children.
"If you were really savvy, you'd 'manipulate' the media into a stampede of lurid drivel deriding her as a Stepford wife and a dominatrix..." Ann Althouse 2008
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Given these criteria, Marler and Evans examined the anti-predator behavior of bantam chickens, and found that the chickens reliably give different alarm calls to aerial predators and ground predators
Animal Cognition Andrews, Kristin 2008
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Moreover, their foraging strategy should affect their susceptibility to predators and thus influence their anti-predator mechanisms.
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This shows that to protect all of our children, anti-predator education needs to take place in schools.
"If you were really savvy, you'd 'manipulate' the media into a stampede of lurid drivel deriding her as a Stepford wife and a dominatrix..." Ann Althouse 2008
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Thousands of years of predator-prey coexistence have resulted in a number of anti-predator life history traits among prey species.
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