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| Benevides,Larissa J.; Nunes,José de Anchieta C. C.; Costa,Tiego L. A.; Sampaio,Cláudio L. S.. |
| ABSTRACT When confronted by predators, prey need to make an economic decision between continuing their current activity or flee. Flight Initiation Distance (FID), the distance at which an organism begins to flee an approaching threat, has been used to indicate an animal's fearfulness level and a way to examine factors influencing escape decisions. Here we investigated how the FID of the barber surgeonfish, Acanthurus bahianus, responds to the presence of spearfishers in a fishing site in northeast Brazil. Specifically, we examined whether the FID was influenced by body and group size; by the heterogeneity of species in groups formation; and the distance to shelter. Significant differences in FID were observed with increasing body size. We found no... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Antipredator behaviour; Brazil; Flight initiation distance; Rocky reefs; Spearfishing. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252016000100219 |
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