Strike fast, strike hard: the red-throated caracara exploits absconding behavior of social wasps during nest predation.

Strike fast, strike hard: the red-throated caracara exploits absconding behavior of social wasps during nest predation.

Red-throated Caracaras Ibycter americanus (Falconidae) are specialist predators of social wasps in the Neotropics. It had been proposed that these caracaras possess chemical repellents that allow them to take the brood of wasp nests without being attacked by worker wasps. To determine how caracaras...

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Main Authors: Sean McCann, Onour Moeri, Tanya Jones, Catherine Scott, Grigori Khaskin, Regine Gries, Sean O'Donnell, Gerhard Gries
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3873407?pdf=render

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