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Title: | Predator personality and prey behavioural predictability jointly determine foraging performance | Authors: | Chang, C.-C Teo, H.Y Norma-Rashid, Y Li, D |
Keywords: | aggression animal predation spider Aggression Animals Predatory Behavior Spiders |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | Citation: | Chang, C.-C, Teo, H.Y, Norma-Rashid, Y, Li, D (2017). Predator personality and prey behavioural predictability jointly determine foraging performance. Scientific Reports 7 : 40734. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep40734 | Abstract: | Predator-prey interactions play important roles in ecological communities. Personality, consistent inter-individual differences in behaviour, of predators, prey or both are known to influence inter-specific interactions. An individual may also behave differently under the same situation and the level of such variability may differ between individuals. Such intra-individual variability (IIV) or predictability may be a trait on which selection can also act. A few studies have revealed the joint effect of personality types of both predators and prey on predator foraging performance. However, how personality type and IIV of both predators and prey jointly influence predator foraging performance remains untested empirically. Here, we addressed this using a specialized spider-eating jumping spider, Portia labiata (Salticidae), as the predator, and a jumping spider, Cosmophasis umbratica, as the prey. We examined personality types and IIVs of both P. labiata and C. umbratica and used their inter- and intra-individual behavioural variation as predictors of foraging performance (i.e., number of attempts to capture prey). Personality type and predictability had a joint effect on predator foraging performance. Aggressive predators performed better in capturing unpredictable (high IIV) prey than predictable (low IIV) prey, while docile predators demonstrated better performance when encountering predictable prey. This study highlights the importance of the joint effect of both predator and prey personality types and IIVs on predator-prey interactions. © The Author(s) 2017. | Source Title: | Scientific Reports | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/174438 | ISSN: | 2045-2322 | DOI: | 10.1038/srep40734 |
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