2018
DOI: 10.1111/jzo.12570
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Abstract: Asking how prey respond to different species of predators helps understanding the repertoire of defenses prey exhibit. This approach may also add to the knowledge on the efficiency of prey′s defenses against each predator and allows studying the costs of being attacked by different predators. Here, we studied interactions between the predatory terrestrial flatworm Cephaloflexa bergi and the harvestman Mischonyx cuspidatus. The flatworm quickly strikes at the prey′s leg with its head, then crawls towards the pr… Show more

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“…When tested in lab trials, such shield deterred ants, wandering spiders and frogs but not opossums (Machado et al 2005). Secretions have also experimentally demonstrated to be successful to deter flatworm attacks in Myschonyx cuspidatus (Gonyleptidae) (Silva et al 2018). Besides the chemical shielding and jettison, some behaviors may enhance the secretion as defense.…”
Section: A Defensementioning
confidence: 99%
“…When tested in lab trials, such shield deterred ants, wandering spiders and frogs but not opossums (Machado et al 2005). Secretions have also experimentally demonstrated to be successful to deter flatworm attacks in Myschonyx cuspidatus (Gonyleptidae) (Silva et al 2018). Besides the chemical shielding and jettison, some behaviors may enhance the secretion as defense.…”
Section: A Defensementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some laboratorial experiments manipulated secretions extracted from harvestmen, injecting it in possible offensive agents like other arthropods, flatworms, and rats (e.g. Machado et al, 2005;Gnaspini & Hara, 2007;Silva et al, 2018). Therefore, it is unclear how such secretions act in nature leading the harvestman to escape predation as its last line of defense (Gnaspini & Hara, 2007;Pomini et al, 2010).…”
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“…They are predators of a wide range of invertebrates but there is considerable variation in food preference among them (Winsor et al, 2004;Cseh et al, 2017). Some species are specialized in a single prey species; other land planarians are generalist and prey upon snails, earthworms and harvestmen (Silva et al, 2018).…”
Section: Presentationmentioning
confidence: 99%