... on artificial surfaces. However, recent studies discovered that adhesion of cribellate nanofibres increases massively after contact with insect cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs). This raises the question whether insect CHCs generally influence prey capture. We compared the adhesion of cribellate, ecribellate gluey...

.... and Gardiner , J. ( 2021 ). Prey capture kinematics of wild and hatchery juvenile common snook Centropomus undecimalis . Bull. Mar. Sci. 97 , 539 - 558 . 10.5343/bms.2020.0023 Caves , E. M. , Sutton , T. T. and Johnsen , S. ( 2017 ). Visual acuity in ray-finned fishes...

... pedipalps. These limbs are used to strike at, and secure, prey before processing by the chelicerae. Amblypygi pedipalps are multifunctional, however, being used in courtship and contest, and vary greatly in form between species. Increased pedipalp length may improve performance during prey capture...

... foraging in fast flows because of a high attack cost and low prey capture success associated with leaving a station-holding refuge to intercept prey. By integrating optimum foraging theory with empirical data from respirometry and video tracking, we developed a mathematical model to predict when drift...

... by fishing hooks reduce suction feeding performance in marine surfperch by altering the flow of water into the mouth during suction. Fishing Prey capture Catch-and-release Mortality Conservation CFD Recreational fishing is popular throughout the world and has significant socioeconomic...

... feeders ( Jones et al., 2013 ; Kienle and Berta, 2016 ). As evidenced by the seals in this study, biting was associated with different ingestion behaviors, including prey capture, external prey processing and prey manipulation. Pierce feeding was characterized by curling back the lateral sides...

..., environmentally responsive, adhesive biomaterial. Adhesive Biomaterial Hygroscopic Prey capture Self-assembling Evolution in silk use has played a crucial role in the success of the diverse, over 47,000-species-strong arachnid order Araneae to which spiders belong ( Vollrath, 2005 ; Vollrath...

..., extensible piriform silk to subdue hazardous prey. This derived use of attachment silk comes with strong modifications of the spinning apparatus and reduces the ability to attach structural silk threads. Spider silk Piriform silk Adhesion Prey capture Tensile test Spinneret Araneophagy...

... and stabilization. Prey capture Jumping Archer fish Rapid maneuvering Particle image velocimetry Jumping by any organism requires substantial energy and precise muscular coordination. Aquatic jumpers in particular must produce thrust in manners compatible with the transition in fluid media...

... when the prey is captured as it crosses into a ‘prey-capture zone’, as identified as an imaginary line between the tip of the tibia and the trochanter–femur. The sweep stage is represented by further extension of the coxa, rapid extension of the femur and extension followed by rapid flexion...

...Sarah J. Longo; Matthew D. McGee; Christopher E. Oufiero; Thomas B. Waltzek; Peter C. Wainwright ABSTRACT Suction-feeding fishes exhibit diverse prey-capture strategies that vary in their relative use of suction and predator approach (ram), which is often referred to as the ram–suction continuum...

... they approached the recording array. This is comparable to bats that also expand their field of view during prey capture, but achieve this by decreasing biosonar frequency. This behaviour may serve to decrease the risk that rapid escape movements of prey take them outside the biosonar beam of the predator...

... taxa. Here, we report the first detailed quantification of echolocation behaviour during prey capture in the most studied delphinid species, a false killer whale and a bottlenose dolphin. Using acoustic DTAGs, we demonstrate that just prior to prey interception these delphinids change their acoustic...

.... oversaw all stages of the experiment and revised the manuscript. Competing interests The authors declare no competing financial interests. 18 10 2013 17 4 2014 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Stemmata Prey capture Predator Range finding...

... mechanism in fishes: evidence from comparative tongue bite apparatus morphology and raking kinematics . J. Exp. Biol.   211 , 3378 - 3391 . Lauder   G. V. ( 1980 ). Hydrodynamics of prey capture by teleost fishes . In Biofluid Mechanics (ed. Schneck   D. J. ), pp. 161 - 181 . New York...

...Cecilia Boutry; Todd A. Blackledge SUMMARY Like many biomaterials, spider silk responds to water through softening and swelling. Major ampullate silk, the main structural element of most prey capture webs, also shrinks dramatically if unrestrained or develops high tension if restrained...

... prey capture Syngnathidae biomechanics Many aquatic vertebrates use suction, generated via expansion of the buccopharyngeal cavity, to capture their prey. This expansion quickly draws a certain volume of water (and any prey failing to escape) into the mouth. In actinopterygian fishes...

...) sampling at high rates in a fine-scale kinematic study of lunge feeding to examine the sequence of events within lunges and how energy may be expended and conserved in the process of prey capture. Analysis of 479 lunges from five humpback whales reveals that the whales accelerate as they acquire prey...

..., and/or using polarization features for prey detection. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 14 5 2012 20 6 2012 © 2012. 2012 stemmata prey capture eye predator e-vector Polarization cues are known to be important for many adult insects. Most commonly...

... mechanisms of prey capture and killing, and their implications for foraging behavior and ecology (e.g. Marti, 1974 ; Csermely et al., 1998 ; Csermely and Gaibani, 1998 ; Ward et al., 2002 ). We suggest that more comprehensive, phylogenetically explicit studies of grip force among avian taxa, particularly...