Eavesdropping predators, parasites and parasitoids exploit signals emitted by their prey and
hosts for detection, assessment, localization and attack, and in the process impose strong …

Increased predation risk is considered a cost of having conspicuous colours, affecting the
anti-predator behaviour of colourful animals. However, this is difficult to test, as individual …

Camouflage is widespread throughout the animal kingdom allowing individuals to avoid
detection and hence save time and energy rather than escape from an approaching …

Within a community, different species might share similar predation risks, and, thus, the
ability of species to signal and interpret heterospecific threat information may determine …

Personality syndromes in animals may have adaptive benefits for survival. For example,
while engaging in predator deterrence, reactive individuals tend to prioritise their own …

In most cases, prey animals do not escape randomly, but toward a refuge such as a rock
crevice, burrow, tree, or a patch of thick vegetation. Safer habitats where animals restrict …

Behavioral responses to predation risk are critical for survival but as antipredator behavior is
costly, prey animals should flexibly modulate their optimum defensive responses by …

Highlights•Eavesdropping has been studied in many mammals and birds, but not
lizards.•We asked whether a skink responds to the sounds of their predators and/or alarm …

Following Charles Darwin, research on sexual dichromatism has long focused on sexual
selection driving ornamentation in males. However, Alfred Russel Wallace proposed …

The weeping lizard, Liolaemus chiliensis, emits distress calls when trapped by a predator.
Conspecific lizards respond to such calls with prolonged immobility, which may increase …