Biology 338: Lecture 12Spring 1997

Defensive Behavior I

  1. Ways of categorizing defenses behaviors
    1. Individual defenses vs. group defenses
    2. Primary defenses vs. secondary defenses
    3. Predator-avoidance behaviors vs. anti-predator behaviors

  2. Coping with predators adaptively
    1. Making detection less likely
      1. Removing telltale evidence
      2. Crypsis
    2. Making an attack less likely
      1. Chemical defenses
      2. Aposematism
      3. Mimicry
        1. Batesian mimicry
        2. Müllerian mimicry
      4. Solicited defenses
      5. Advertising unprofitability
    3. Making capture less likely
    4. Making consumption less likely