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Role of different colours of aposematic insects in learning, memory and generalization of naive bird predators
- 1.0337602 - BC 2010 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Svádová, K. - Exnerová, A. - Štys, P. - Landová, E. - Valenta, J. - Fučíková, A. - Socha, Radomír
Role of different colours of aposematic insects in learning, memory and generalization of naive bird predators.
Animal Behaviour. Roč. 77, č. 2 (2009), s. 327-336. ISSN 0003-3472. E-ISSN 1095-8282
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50070508
Keywords : asymmetric generalization * avoidance learning * firebug
Subject RIV: ED - Physiology
Impact factor: 2.890, year: 2009
The role of the red-coloured wild-type and some coloured mutants (white, yellow and orange) of an aposematic insect (firebug, Pyrrhocoris apterus) was tested in unlearned avoidance, learning, memory and generalization of a naive avian predator (great tit, Parus major). Wild-caught great tits avoid the firebug depending on colour, and their reaction to variously coloured prey is a result of avoidance learning and may vary according to their experience. Naive, hand-reared great tits showed no initial avoidance and attacked firebugs irrespective of colour. The results od the study showed that red colour represents a more effective signal than the yellow. The naive tits learned to avoid all the colour form at a similar rate, but generalization their experience was asymmetric.
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