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... prey before them . The schools cannot divide and move behind any one member of the line because of its neighbors . When a suffi- cient number of prey have been assembled in the center of the living net , the hunters sweep in on them ...
... prey before them . The schools cannot divide and move behind any one member of the line because of its neighbors . When a suffi- cient number of prey have been assembled in the center of the living net , the hunters sweep in on them ...
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... prey probably have a hard time also . Camouflage should discourage visually hunting predators from searching for certain prey because preda- tors that inspected every leaf or every inch of tree trunk for leaf- or bark- mimicking insects ...
... prey probably have a hard time also . Camouflage should discourage visually hunting predators from searching for certain prey because preda- tors that inspected every leaf or every inch of tree trunk for leaf- or bark- mimicking insects ...
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... prey initially ( type 4 ) and then to make it look larger and more attractive than it really is ( type 5 ) . By this stage the balloon has become the releaser of mate choice for the female , and the prey itself is no longer the initial ...
... prey initially ( type 4 ) and then to make it look larger and more attractive than it really is ( type 5 ) . By this stage the balloon has become the releaser of mate choice for the female , and the prey itself is no longer the initial ...
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NATURAL SELECTION | 5 |
Alternative Hypotheses | 11 |
Experimental Tests of Evolutionary Predictions | 17 |
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