ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2011
Natural visual cues eliciting predator avoidance in fiddler crabs.
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- Fiddler crabs (Afruca tangeri) detect second-order motion in both intensity and polarization.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Miniature bioinspired artificial compound eyes: microfabrication technologies, photodetection and applications.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024Review
- Views from 'crabworld': the spatial distribution of light in a tropical mudflat.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- Visual threats reduce blood-feeding and trigger escape responses in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Fiddler crab electroretinograms reveal vast circadian shifts in visual sensitivity and temporal summation in dim light.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
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- Fear of predation alters clone-specific performance in phloem-feeding prey.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Systematic variations in microvilli banding patterns along fiddler crab rhabdoms.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2013Article
- An alternative theoretical approach to escape decision-making: the role of visual cues.PloS one · 2012Article
- Smell or vision? The use of different sensory modalities in predator discrimination.Behavioral ecology and sociobiologyArticle
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Abstract
To efficiently provide an animal with relevant information, the design of its visual system should reflect the distribution of natural signals and the animal's tasks. In many behavioural contexts, however, we know comparatively little about the moment-to-moment information-processing challenges animals face in their daily lives. In predator avoidance, for instance, we lack an accurate description of the natural signal stream and its value for risk assessment throughout the prey's defensive behaviour. We characterized the visual signals generated by real, potentially predatory events by video-recording bird approaches towards an Uca vomeris colony. Using four synchronized cameras allowed us to simultaneously monitor predator avoidance responses of crabs. We reconstructed the signals generated by dangerous and non-dangerous flying animals, identified the cues that triggered escape responses and compared them with those triggering responses to dummy predators. Fiddler crabs responded to a combination of multiple visual cues (including retinal speed, elevation and visual flicker) that reflect the visual signatures of distinct bird and insect behaviours. This allowed crabs to discriminate between dangerous and non-dangerous events. The results demonstrate the importance of measuring natural sensory signatures of biologically relevant events in order to understand biological information processing and its effects on behavioural organization.
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