Abstract:Due to its unforgiving nature, predation pressure exerts strong selection pressure on the behaviour of prey animals. As a result, prey are forced to balance the conflicting demands of successfully detecting and avoiding predators and the need to engage in other fitness-related activities such as foraging, mating and social behaviour. Here, we provide an overview of the role that individual predator avoidance decisions plays in constraining behavioural phenotypes and how past experience with risks shapes curren… Show more
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