ArticleAnimal cognition2018
Larval antlions show a cognitive ability/hunting efficiency trade-off connected with the level of behavioural asymmetry.
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- Antlion larvae follow optimality rules in body orientation during sand tossing.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
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- Operant conditioning in antlion larvae and its impairment following exposure to elevated temperatures.Animal cognition · 2022Article
- Heat stress during development makes antlion larvae more responsive to vibrational cues.Current zoology · 2022Article
- Lateralization in feeding is food type specific and impacts feeding success in wild birds.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Past thermal conditions affect hunting behaviour in larval antlions.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Learning is negatively associated with strength of left/right paw preference in wild grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis).Learning & behavior · 2020Article
- Rebel honeybee workers have a tendency to become intraspecific reproductive parasites.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
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Recently, antlion larvae with greater behavioural asymmetry were shown to have improved learning abilities. However, a major evolutionary question that remained unanswered was why this asymmetry does not increase in all individuals during development. Here, we show that a trade-off exists between learning ability of larvae and their hunting efficiency. Larvae with greater asymmetry learn better than those with less, but the latter are better able to sense vibrational signals used to detect prey and can capture prey more quickly. Both traits, learning ability and hunting efficiency, present obvious fitness advantages; the trade-off between them may explain why behavioural asymmetry, which presumably stems from brain lateralization, is relatively rare in natural antlion populations.
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