This is a Preprint and has not been peer reviewed. The published version of this Preprint is available: https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.asb.2022.01.003. This is version 2 of this Preprint.
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Abstract
Mobbing is an important anti-predator behavior where prey harass and attack a predator to lower the immediate and long-term risk posed by predators, warn others, and communicate about the predator’s threat. While this behavior has been of interest to humans since antiquity, and aspects of it have been well researched for the past 50 years, we still know little about its ecology and the evolutionary pressures that gave rise to this ubiquitous anti- predator behavior. In this review, we explore what mobbing is, how it is used, what its functions are thought to be, its use as a proxy for cognition, before providing suggestions for specific future avenues of research necessary to improve our understanding of mobbing in its ecological and evolutionary context.
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https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/rty9q
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Animal Sciences, Animal Studies, Behavior and Ethology, Biology, Communication, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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anti-predator behaviors, Birds, fish, insects, Mammals, mobbing, reptiles, review
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Published: 2021-10-26 15:48
Last Updated: 2022-02-13 23:56
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CC-BY Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
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