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Does the ophiuroid Amphiura filiformis alert conspecifics to the danger of predation through the generation of an alarm signal?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2003

Martin Solan  and
Emma J.V. Battle
Martin Solan
Affiliation:
Oceanlab, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, AB41 6AA, UK
Emma J.V. Battle*
Affiliation:
Oceanlab, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, AB41 6AA, UK
*
Corresponding author, e-mail: e.battle@abdn.ac.uk
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Abstract

The ability of the ophiuroid Amphiura filiformis to alert conspecifics to the presence of a predator was investigated. Our preliminary findings indicate that intraspecific communication of an alarm signal does not occur and that, ultimately, the motivation for altering behaviour in response to a stimulus is not oriented to the population as a whole

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 83 , Issue 5 , October 2003 , pp. 1117 - 1118
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2003

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