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dc.contributor.authorIoannou, Christos C
dc.contributor.authorCarvalho, Luis Arrochela Braga
dc.contributor.authorBudleigh, Chessy
dc.contributor.authorRuxton, Graeme D
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-22T16:30:06Z
dc.date.available2023-05-22T16:30:06Z
dc.date.issued2023-07-01
dc.identifier286431227
dc.identifier458378c8-9c88-4bd7-b7bb-9a4d3807e2c0
dc.identifier85166153321
dc.identifier.citationIoannou , C C , Carvalho , L A B , Budleigh , C & Ruxton , G D 2023 , ' Virtual prey with Lévy motion are preferentially attacked by predatory fish ' , Behavioral Ecology , vol. 34 , no. 4 , arad039 , pp. 695-699 . https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arad039en
dc.identifier.issn1465-7279
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:94B2568BDC570F81B3A125A97315256B
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-8943-6609/work/135851134
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/27666
dc.descriptionFunding: This work was funded by a NERC Independent Research Fellowship (NE/K009370/1) and a Leverhulme Trust grant (RPG-2017-041 V) awarded to C.C.I.en
dc.description.abstractOf widespread interest in animal behavior and ecology is how animals search their environment for resources, and whether these search strategies are optimal. However, movement also affects predation risk through effects on encounter rates, the conspicuousness of prey, and the success of attacks. Here, we use predatory fish attacking a simulation of virtual prey to test whether predation risk is associated with movement behavior. Despite often being demonstrated to be a more efficient strategy for finding resources such as food, we find that prey displaying Lévy motion are twice as likely to be targeted by predators than prey utilizing Brownian motion. This can be explained by the predators, at the moment of the attack, preferentially targeting prey that were moving with straighter trajectories rather than prey that were turning more. Our results emphasize that costs of predation risk need to be considered alongside the foraging benefits when comparing different movement strategies.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofBehavioral Ecologyen
dc.subjectBrownian motionen
dc.subjectLévy flighten
dc.subjectLévy walken
dc.subjectGasterosteus aculeatusen
dc.subjectSearch behaviouren
dc.subjectThree-spined sticklebacksen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleVirtual prey with Lévy motion are preferentially attacked by predatory fishen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversityen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/beheco/arad039
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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