Through experience to boldness? Deactivation of neophobia towards novel and aposematic prey in three European species of tits (Paridae)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2016.07.014" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2016.07.014</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2016.07.014" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.beproc.2016.07.014</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Through experience to boldness? Deactivation of neophobia towards novel and aposematic prey in three European species of tits (Paridae)

Original language description

European tits (Paridae) exhibit species-specific levels of initial wariness towards aposematic prey. This wariness may be caused by neophobia, dietary conservatism or innate bias against particular prey traits. We assessed the contribution of these three mechanisms to the behaviour of juvenile tits towards novel palatable prey and novel aposematic prey. We compared levels of initial wariness in great tits (Parus major), blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) and coal tits (Periparus ater), and tested how the wariness can be deactivated by experience with a palatable prey. One group of birds was pre-trained to attack familiar naturally coloured mealworms the other one, novel red-painted mealworms. Then all the birds were offered a novel palatable prey of different colour and shape: cricket (Acheta domestica) with blue sticker, and then a novel aposematic firebug (Pyrrhocoris apterus). The three species of tits differed in how the experience with a novel palatable prey affected their behaviour towards another novel prey. Great tits and coal tits from experienced groups significantly decreased their neophobia towards both palatable prey and aposematic prey while blue tits did not change their strongly neophobic reactions. The interspecific differences may be explained by differences in body size, geographic range, and habitat specialisation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

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

CEP classification

EG - Zoology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP505%2F11%2F1459" target="_blank" >GAP505/11/1459: Factors responsible for variation in behaviour of predators towards aposematic prey</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Behavioural Processes

ISSN

0376-6357

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

131

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Oktober

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

24-31

UT code for WoS article

000384383500004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84982801627