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dc.contributor.authorHumphreys, Rosalind K.
dc.contributor.authorRuxton, Graeme D.
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-29T00:36:30Z
dc.date.available2021-01-29T00:36:30Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-29
dc.identifier265751083
dc.identifierc9f469f1-5a10-447e-b49b-e60995b35d69
dc.identifier85078772218
dc.identifier000509806200001
dc.identifier.citationHumphreys , R K & Ruxton , G D 2020 , ' The dicey dinner dilemma : asymmetry in predator-prey risk-taking, a broadly-applicable alternative to the life-dinner principle ' , Journal of Evolutionary Biology , vol. Early View . https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13585en
dc.identifier.issn1010-061X
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:059CB643C2EAD7E97682EED6B768B1F9
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-8943-6609/work/68281545
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-7266-7523/work/68281788
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/21342
dc.descriptionRKH is grateful to both the University of St Andrews and the Perry Foundation for funding.en
dc.description.abstractForty years ago, the ‘life‐dinner principle’ was proposed as an example of an asymmetry that may lead prey species to experience stronger selection than their predators, thus accounting for the high frequency with which prey escape alive from interaction with a predator. This principle remains an influential concept in the scientific literature, despite several works suggesting that the concept relies on many under‐appreciated assumptions and does not apply as generally as was initially proposed. Here, we present a novel model describing a very different asymmetry to that proposed in the life‐dinner principle, but one that could apply broadly. We argue that asymmetries between the relative costs and benefits to predators and prey of selecting a risky behaviour during an extended predator–prey encounter could lead to an enhanced likelihood of escape for the prey. Any resulting advantage to prey depends upon there being a behaviour or choice that introduces some inherent danger to both predator and prey if they adopt it, but which if the prey adopts the predator must match in order to have a chance of successful predation. We suggest that the circumstances indicated by our model could apply broadly across diverse taxa, including both risky spatial or behavioural choices.
dc.format.extent9104908
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Evolutionary Biologyen
dc.subjectArms-raceen
dc.subjectBehavioural ecologyen
dc.subjectEvolutionen
dc.subjectLife-dinner principleen
dc.subjectPredator-prey interactionen
dc.subjectRisk-takingen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleThe dicey dinner dilemma : asymmetry in predator-prey risk-taking, a broadly-applicable alternative to the life-dinner principleen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversityen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/jeb.13585
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2021-01-29


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