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  • adjective That provides a defence against predation or predators

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Examples

  • "We were surprised to find that spotted bowerbirds weren't only mimicking predators given that mimicry in this species has been previously described as an anti-predator behaviour."

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • The relationship between infectivity of Schistocephalus solidus Cestoda and anti-predator behavior of its intermediate host, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • The relationship between infectivity of Schistocephalus solidus Cestoda and anti-predator behavior of its intermediate host, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • It was until now believed that nocturnally migrating songbirds, while venturing into the unfamiliar night sky for accomplishing their long, challenging trans-continental migrations, could at least release anti-predator vigilance thanks to the concealment of darkness.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • The relationship between infectivity of Schistocephalus solidus Cestoda and anti-predator behavior of its intermediate host, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • While it's true that parents can give their children anti-predator lessons, realize that parents account for one-third of molested children.

    "If you were really savvy, you'd 'manipulate' the media into a stampede of lurid drivel deriding her as a Stepford wife and a dominatrix..." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Given these criteria, Marler and Evans examined the anti-predator behavior of bantam chickens, and found that the chickens reliably give different alarm calls to aerial predators and ground predators

    Animal Cognition Andrews, Kristin 2008

  • Moreover, their foraging strategy should affect their susceptibility to predators and thus influence their anti-predator mechanisms.

    Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean 2008

  • This shows that to protect all of our children, anti-predator education needs to take place in schools.

    "If you were really savvy, you'd 'manipulate' the media into a stampede of lurid drivel deriding her as a Stepford wife and a dominatrix..." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Thousands of years of predator-prey coexistence have resulted in a number of anti-predator life history traits among prey species.

    Serengeti volcanic grasslands 2007

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