Abstract Death feigning is a behavior in which a prey is rendered motionless due to stimulation or threat by a predator. This anti-predator defense mechanism has been observed across a wide range of animal taxa and is considered adaptive. However, long durations of death feigning can decrease opportunities for feeding and reproduction, and therefore is a fitness cost as compared to environments without predators. Because death feigning is thought to be affected by the balance between survival and other fitness costs, selection pressure may drive individuals who are capable of plastic changes in the intensity of death feigning. Pheromones, which are important semiochemicals that affect foraging and reproductive success, may be one of the factors influencing the intensity of death-feigning behavior. In this study, we investigated the effect of an aggregation pheromone on the death-feigning behavior of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum . We found that beetles exposed to the pheromone showed a significantly shorter duration of death feigning than beetles that were not exposed to the pheromone. Therefore, our results suggest that an aggregation pheromone can plasticly alter the death-feigning behavior in T. castaneum .
{"title":"Aggregation pheromone interrupts death feigning in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum","authors":"Motoya Ishikawa, Kentarou Matsumura, Takahisa Miyatake","doi":"10.1007/s10164-023-00793-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10164-023-00793-2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Death feigning is a behavior in which a prey is rendered motionless due to stimulation or threat by a predator. This anti-predator defense mechanism has been observed across a wide range of animal taxa and is considered adaptive. However, long durations of death feigning can decrease opportunities for feeding and reproduction, and therefore is a fitness cost as compared to environments without predators. Because death feigning is thought to be affected by the balance between survival and other fitness costs, selection pressure may drive individuals who are capable of plastic changes in the intensity of death feigning. Pheromones, which are important semiochemicals that affect foraging and reproductive success, may be one of the factors influencing the intensity of death-feigning behavior. In this study, we investigated the effect of an aggregation pheromone on the death-feigning behavior of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum . We found that beetles exposed to the pheromone showed a significantly shorter duration of death feigning than beetles that were not exposed to the pheromone. Therefore, our results suggest that an aggregation pheromone can plasticly alter the death-feigning behavior in T. castaneum .","PeriodicalId":54837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethology","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135734890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1007/s10164-023-00791-4
{"title":"Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2022","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10164-023-00791-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10164-023-00791-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethology","volume":"41 1","pages":"253 - 253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45541866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1007/s10164-023-00792-3
Dong-Yun Lee, Ju-Hyun Lee, Wooyuel Kim, Ha-Cheol Sung
{"title":"Nest-relief behaviors and usage of call types in the Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)","authors":"Dong-Yun Lee, Ju-Hyun Lee, Wooyuel Kim, Ha-Cheol Sung","doi":"10.1007/s10164-023-00792-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10164-023-00792-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethology","volume":"41 1","pages":"231 - 241"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51985325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1007/s10164-023-00790-5
Kaori Mizuno, Ashoka D. G. Ranjeewa, N. Kutsukake, Kalinga U. K. G. Padmalal
{"title":"Collective movements during visits to water bodies in wild Asian elephants","authors":"Kaori Mizuno, Ashoka D. G. Ranjeewa, N. Kutsukake, Kalinga U. K. G. Padmalal","doi":"10.1007/s10164-023-00790-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10164-023-00790-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethology","volume":"41 1","pages":"223 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41711774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-26DOI: 10.1007/s10164-023-00789-y
Takato Kudara, K. Kochi
{"title":"Behavioral responses of the Japanese freshwater crab, Geothelphusa dehaani, to the leech, Myxobdella sinanensis","authors":"Takato Kudara, K. Kochi","doi":"10.1007/s10164-023-00789-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10164-023-00789-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethology","volume":"41 1","pages":"215 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48802348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1007/s10164-023-00788-z
Rebecca Umeed, K. Lucchini, P. Coutinho, Paulo Jorge Parreira dos Santos, J. Borges, Iran Normade, Fernanda Löffler Niemer Attademo, F. Luna, B. Bezerra
{"title":"Acoustic interactions between free-living mother–calf Antillean manatees, Trichechus manatus manatus","authors":"Rebecca Umeed, K. Lucchini, P. Coutinho, Paulo Jorge Parreira dos Santos, J. Borges, Iran Normade, Fernanda Löffler Niemer Attademo, F. Luna, B. Bezerra","doi":"10.1007/s10164-023-00788-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10164-023-00788-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethology","volume":"41 1","pages":"243 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42074361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1007/s10164-023-00787-0
Shingo Fujimoto, K. Yamahira, Mitsuharu Yagi
{"title":"Routine metabolic rate correlates with swimming speed in medaka","authors":"Shingo Fujimoto, K. Yamahira, Mitsuharu Yagi","doi":"10.1007/s10164-023-00787-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10164-023-00787-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethology","volume":"41 1","pages":"207 - 214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45541426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.1007/s10164-023-00786-1
Xingyi Jiang, Wei-Che Liang, Yanyun Zhang
{"title":"Black-headed gulls are more wary of people dressed in red: a test of the concealment color hypothesis","authors":"Xingyi Jiang, Wei-Che Liang, Yanyun Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s10164-023-00786-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10164-023-00786-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethology","volume":"41 1","pages":"201 - 206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45680256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.1007/s10164-023-00783-4
Y. Yasui
{"title":"Mite dilemma: molting to acquire sexual maturity or not molting to ensure durability and dispersal ability in Phorytocarpais fimetorum (Parasitiformes; Gamasida; Parasitidae)","authors":"Y. Yasui","doi":"10.1007/s10164-023-00783-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10164-023-00783-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethology","volume":"41 1","pages":"177 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49336301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.1007/s10164-023-00784-3
M. Diatroptov, A. Opaev
{"title":"Bigger male Eurasian nuthatches (Sitta europaea) behave more aggressively in playback-simulated territorial intrusion","authors":"M. Diatroptov, A. Opaev","doi":"10.1007/s10164-023-00784-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10164-023-00784-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethology","volume":"41 1","pages":"185 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42677234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}