Conspicuous animal signals avoid the cost of predation by being intermittent or novel: confirmation in the wild using hundreds of robotic prey

• Main Authors: Indraneil, Das, Terry J., Ord, Katrina, Blazek, Thomas E., White
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Royal Society Publishing 2021
• Subjects: Q Science (General); QH Natural history; QL Zoology
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/35444/1/575-%20Ord%20et%20al.%20%28Draco%20robotic%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/35444/; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rspb; https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0706
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Social animals are expected to face a trade-off between producing a signal that is detectible by mates and rivals, but not obvious to predators. This trade-off is fundamental for understanding the design of many animal signals, and is often the lens through which the evolution of alternative communi...