Ontogeny of escape-hatching decisions vibrational cue use changes as predicted from costs of sampling and false alarms

• Published in: Behavioral ecology and sociobiology Vol. 73; no. 4; pp. 1 - 14
• Main Authors: Warkentin, Karen M., Jung, Julie, Solano, L. Alberto Rueda, McDaniel, J. Gregory
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Science + Business Media 01.04.2019; Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agalychnis callidryas; Alarms; Animal behavior; Animal Ecology; Animal populations; animals; behavior change; Behavioral Sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Cues; Decision making; Developmental stages; eggs; Embryos; Frequency spectrum; Frogs; Hatching; learning; Life Sciences; mortality; Ontogeny; ORIGINAL ARTICLE; Playback; Playbacks; Predation; Predators; prediction; rain; risk; Risk acceptance; Risk assessment; Sampling; tadpoles; Tradeoffs; Vibration; Vibration control; Vibrations; Zoology; Biotremology; Ontogenetic adaptation; Risk assessment; Vibration playback; Environmentally cued hatching; Embryo behavior

As animals develop, their abilities and needs change, altering cost/benefit trade-offs and optimal behavior responses to cues. We tested if ontogenetic changes in information use and environmentally cued hatching decisions of embryos match adaptive predictions, using red-eyed treefrogs, Agalychnis c...