Learned Recognition of Predation Risk by Enallagma Damselfly Larvae (Odonata, Zygoptera) on the Basis of Chemical Cues

Wisenden, Brian D.; Chivers, Douglas P.; Smith, R. J. F.

doi:10.1023/b:joec.0000006350.66424.3d

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“…Furthermore, there is no reason to expect that such learning should occur in response to conspecific cues alone, given that species sharing the same habitat may be at risk from the same predators. Indeed, in the damselfly study, larvae showed the same response when pike stimuli were combined with cues from injured fathead minnows-a taxonomically remote species that is hunted by the same predator (Wisenden et al 1997). …”

Section: Classical Conditioning In Damselfly Antipredator Responsementioning

confidence: 91%

“…In areas where damselflies (Enallagma boreale) co-occur with predatory pike (Esox lucius), their larvae respond to olfactory cues from pike stimuli with antipredator behavior involving a reduction in feeding activity and movement. In contrast, larvae from allopatric populations do not respond to pike cues, but can be induced to do so if such cues are presented in combination with olfactory cues from crushed conspecifics (Wisenden et al 1997). Wisenden and colleagues found that when the same larvae were later presented with pike cues in the absence of conspecific stimuli, they again reduced their feeding activity and movement, implying that the predation response had become conditioned to the pike stimulus.…”

Section: Classical Conditioning In Damselfly Antipredator Responsementioning

confidence: 99%

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Leadbeater¹,

Chittka²

2009

Food Exploitation by Social Insects

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Section: Classical Conditioning In Damselfly Antipredator Responsementioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Classical Conditioning In Damselfly Antipredator Responsementioning

confidence: 99%

Social Information Use in Foraging Insects

Leadbeater¹,

Chittka²

2009

Food Exploitation by Social Insects

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“…Thus, the ability of a rapid adaptation to a new environment (Yoshida et al, 2003) including novel predators (Chivers et al, 1996;Wisenden et al, 1997) can be crucial for the success of non-native species on a new territory. Evolutionary changes in anti-predatory responses can be very fast and take place within just a few generations (Yoshida et al, 2003).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Predator diet, origin or both? Factors determining responses of omnivorous amphipods to predation cues

Jermacz

Dzierżyńska‐Białończyk

Kobak

2016

Hydrobiologia

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Detection of chemical cues of predators and food resources is a key for the behaviour of many species in aquatic ecosystems. We checked whether predator origin and diet, containing potential food and/ or alarm signals, affect the behaviour of omnivorous prey partly sharing their diet with a top predator. We conducted y-maze experiments to study the responses of invasive omnivorous and cannibalistic amphipods (Dikerogammarus villosus and Pontogammarus robustoides) to chemical cues of fish predators, injured amphipods and chironomid larvae (common amphipod food). As the predators, we used the goby Babka gymnotrachelus (sympatric with the amphipods) and piranha Pygocentrus nattereri (allopatric to the amphipods). The fish were either starved or fed amphipods or chironomids. D. villosus preferred predators fed chironomids and conspecifics as well as crushed conspecifics and chironomids, but avoided both hungry predators. Thus, D. villosus may perceive the presence of a top predator as an indication of both food resource and predation risk. P. robustoides avoided predators fed both amphipods (particularly conspecifics) and their alarm substances. The responses of both species depended more on the predator diet than on its species, which is likely to facilitate the recognition of allopatric predators and survival in newly invaded areas.

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“…Numerous studies have demonstrated that prey can even learn to recognize predators by associating them with damage-release cues, suggesting that learned predator recognition by alarm chemical association has important implications for predator-prey interactions (e.g. Chivers & Smith, 1994;Chivers et al, 1995a;Wisenden et al, 1997). Various factors can in uence alarm cue responses, such as the state of prey (e.g.…”

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The Ontogeny of Chemically-Mediated Antipredator Behaviours in Newts (Notophthalmus Viridescens): Responses to Injured and Non-Injured Conspecifics

Rohr

Madison²,

Sullivan³

2002

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SummaryResponses to alarm chemicals from injured prey may in uence predation risk and foraging success of receivers and senders, while learning can in uence the strength of these responses. Thus, it is important to know when in ontogeny prey produce and detect alarm substances and how learning shapes their response, but surprisingly little is known about either of these topics. We assessed when in the life of red-spotted newts, Notophthalmus viridescens, alarm chemicals are produced and detected by comparing adult versus eft (terrestrial juveniles) and larval responses to rinses and tissue extracts from individuals in each life-history stage. To evaluate the in uence of experience in larvae exposed to conspeci c alarm substances and rinses from adults known to cannibalize larvae, we compared the response of naïve larvae, which had no prior experience with alarm chemicals or predators, to experienced larvae, which were likely to have experienced alarm chemicals and predators in their native pond. Larvae were indifferent to larval rinses and extracts, but reduced their activity in response to adult rinses and extracts. There was no difference between responses of recently hatched naïve and experienced larvae, indicating that larvae exhibit innate antipredator behaviors in response to adult odour. Adults were indifferent to all larval treatments and adult rinse, but avoided adult extract. Since neither adults nor larvae responded to larval extract, larvae did not appear to possess alarm chemicals, and consequently, we were unable to assess the in uence of experience on alarm substance response in larvae. Adults and efts were indifferent to rinses, but avoided extracts from conspeci cs of both life-history stages. Together, these results demonstrate that red-spotted newts do not produce alarm chemicals until late in larval development, but can respond to predation-related chemical cues soon after hatching.

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Learned Recognition of Predation Risk by Enallagma Damselfly Larvae (Odonata, Zygoptera) on the Basis of Chemical Cues

Cited by 138 publications

References 51 publications

Social Information Use in Foraging Insects

Social Information Use in Foraging Insects

Predator diet, origin or both? Factors determining responses of omnivorous amphipods to predation cues

The Ontogeny of Chemically-Mediated Antipredator Behaviours in Newts (Notophthalmus Viridescens): Responses to Injured and Non-Injured Conspecifics

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