...Jae Il-Han; Tara Janes; Ken Lukowiak SUMMARY Serotonergic systems play important roles in modulating stress-induced arousal and vigilance behaviours. The pond snail, Lymnaea , shows multiple defensive vigilance behaviours in response to the stress associated with predator detection. Predator...

... as an indicator of benign disturbance. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: mpod3@bu.edu ) 24 11 2008 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2009 2009 frequency cue decision rule predator detection discrimination Agalychnis embryo Prey need information to assess and respond...

... © The Company of Biologists Limited 2007 2007 hatching predator detection playback prey uncertainty seismic vibration Leptophis ahaetulla Leptodeira annulata Agalychnis callidryas Predator- and pathogen-induced shifts in the size and developmental stage at which animals...

... ; Bacher et al.,1997 ; Meyhofer et al.,1997 ; Djemai et al.,2001 ). Predator detection is crucial for prey, animals produce vibrations as inevitable byproducts of movement, and vibration sensitivity is evolutionarily ancient and phylogenetically widespread( Hill, 2001 ). Thus, we might expect...