... 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...

.... Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2018 http://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Summary: Injuries to the mouth caused by fishing hooks reduce suction feeding performance in marine surfperch by altering the flow of water into the mouth during suction. Fishing Prey capture...

...-licence-1-1/ Summary: Behavioral and kinematic differences exist between suction feeding and biting in seals. Suction feeding is common in seals and can occur without specialized skull morphology. Prey capture Foraging Pierce feeding Biting Pinniped Marine mammal Animals employ...

..., 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...

...–103 m s –2 ) measured in the present study were comparable with those reported by Wöhl and Schuster (2007) for C -start maneuvers by Toxotes jaculatrix , a closely related species of similar morphology and size, in aquatic prey capture (0.45–2.10 m s –1 , 17–118 m s –2 ) and escape scenarios (0.39...

.... ( 1989 ). Repeatability: its role in evolutionary studies of mating behavior . Evol. Ecol.   3 , 173 - 182 . 10.1007/BF02270919 Copeland , J. and Carlson , A. D. ( 1979 ). Prey capture in mantids: non-stereotyped component of lunge . J. Insect Physiol.   25 , 263 - 269 . 10.1016...

...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...

... visual field prior to prey capture . J. Comp. Physiol. A   193 , 973 - 982 . Chaudhuri   S. , Rajagopalan   A. ( 1999 ). Depth From Defocus: A Real Aperture Imaging Approach . New York, NY : Springer-Verlag . Chung   W.-S. , Marshall   J. ( 2014 ). Range-finding in squid...

... . Van Wassenbergh   S. , Herrel   A. , Adriaens   D. , Aerts   P. ( 2005 ). A test of mouth-opening and hyoid-depression mechanisms during prey capture in a catfish using high-speed cineradiography . J. Exp. Biol.   208 , 4627 - 4639 . Van Wassenbergh   S. , Herrel...

...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...

...: a mechanism for increased force production?   J. Morphol.   271 , 271 - 279 . Flammang   B. E. , Ferry-Graham   L. A. , Rinewalt   C. , Ardizzone   D. , Davis   C. , Trejo   T. ( 2009 ). Prey capture kinematics and four-bar linkages in the bay pipefish, Syngnathus leptorhynchus...

...) 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 ( elke.buschbeck@uc.edu ) 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...

... that depend more heavily on live prey, remain fertile grounds for examining the ecological significance of grip force in birds, and disentangling the selective roles of perching and prey capture. We support the conclusions of others that combining theoretical and performance analyses provides a better...

...Carrie A. Carreño; Kiisa C. Nishikawa SUMMARY Inertial suction feeding is the most common method of prey capture among aquatic vertebrates. However, it had been unclear whether the aquatic frogs in the family Pipidae also used inertial suction for prey capture. In this study, we examined feeding...

... capture but successful prey capture requires both rapid physiological and biomechanical mechanisms. Conus catus , a fish-hunting species, uses a high-speed hydraulic mechanism to inject its hollow, spear-like radular tooth into prey. We take an integrated approach to investigating the biomechanics...

... moisture, maintaining the droplet volume( Townley et al., 1991 ; Vollrath et al., 1990 ). adhesive system capture thread orb-web prey capture viscous thread 2009 11 6 2009 * Author for correspondence( bopell@vt.edu ) Tables 1 and 2 describe the features of the 16...