Definitions Flashcards
Define exploitative interaction
Fitness of one individual goes up at the cost of fitness to another individual
Merriam-Webster definition of predator
An organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms
Cambridge dictionary definition of predator
An animal that hunts, kills and eats other animals
Merriam-Webster definition of prey
An animal taken by a predator as food
Cambridge dictionary definition of prey
An animal that is hunted and killed for food by another animal
Define endosymbiosis
Bringing together of distinct cells, one inside the other
Define arms-race
Interactive, inter-specific evolution results in diversity of adaptations and some very specialised ones
Define camouflage
Avoiding detection and recognition despite being “in plain sight”
Definition of cryptic prey by Endler and year
“Cryptic prey resemble random samples of the visual background”
(2006)
Definition of crypsis by Poulton
“Generalised resemblance”
Definition of crypsis by Stevens and Merilaita and year
“All traits that reduce an animal’s risk of becoming detected when it is potentially perceivable to an observer”
(2009)
Definition of masquerade by Skelhorn et al and year
“The resemblance of an organism to an inedible object (…) to facilitate misidentification of that organism by its predators or its prey”
(2010)
Krause and Ruxton definition of the confusion effect and year
“Reduced attack-to-kill ratio experienced by a predator resulting from an inability to single out and attack individual prey in a group”
(2002)
