Feigning death in the Central American cichlid Parachromis friedrichsthalii |
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| Authors: | M. Tobler&dagger |
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| Affiliation: | Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH‐8057 Zurich, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | Feigning death, a hunting strategy in which a healthy individual acts as if it was dead to trick prey into its reach, is reported for a population of the Central American cichlid Parachromis friedrichsthalii . Possible mechanisms leading to the evolution of such a behaviour are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Cichlidae fish behaviour hunting strategy Lake Malawi Mexico Nimbochromis livingstonii |
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