Role of different colours of aposematic insects in learning, memory and generalization of na?ve bird predators

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F09%3A10000725" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/09:10000725 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

—

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

—

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Role of different colours of aposematic insects in learning, memory and generalization of na?ve bird predators

Original language description

Juvenile great tits (Parus major) were trained to avoid several colour forms of the firebug Pyrrhocoris apterus. Particular colour of the prey did not influence the rate of avoidance learning. However, the generalization among different colour forms wasasymmetric, the birds birds that learned to avoid red firebugs did not generalize their experience to yellow or white mutants whereas birds that learned to avoid yellow mutants generalized their experience to red firebugs. The red colour thus representsa more effective signal than the yellow; predation by birds could have played a crucial role in selectively favoured evolutionary transitions from yellow to red coloration in pyrrhocorids.

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EG - Zoology

OECD FORD branch

—

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Publication year

2009

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Animal Behaviour

ISSN

0003-3472

e-ISSN

—

Volume of the periodical

77

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

—

UT code for WoS article

—

EID of the result in the Scopus database

—