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- Caudal_luring abstract "Caudal luring is the use of tail movements employed by a predator to attract prey animals. It is a form of mimicry classified formally as aggressive mimicry, but perhaps better described by the term feeding mimicry. It is also an example of deception in animals. The behavior is employed by a number of snake species and allegedly by two lizards, though other interpretations (e.g., distraction) seem more plausible for the lizards. Caudal luring also occurs in a shark, the tasselled wobbegong, Eucrossorinus dasypogon and very likely in the pelican eels, Eurypharynx, which possess a bioluminescent tail tip. The behavior is associated with sedentary predators whose diets include animals susceptible to a worm-like (or fish-like, in the case of Eucrossorinus and perhaps Eurypharynx) luring appendage. Snakes generally lure small ectotherms (e.g., frogs and lizards), although luring of birds has been demonstrated and luring of insectivorous mammals is suspected. Caudal luring occurs most often in juvenile snakes and is most prevalent in vipers and pitvipers, but it also occurs in boas, pythons, tropidophiids, colubrids, and elapids of the genus Acanthophis.Caudal luring has been used as an experimental paradigm to investigate stimulus control and visual perception in viperid snakes. It has been suggested that caudal luring was involved in the evolution of the rattlesnake rattle. Attempts have been made to test this hypothesis, however, the evidence is contentious. There have been dubious reports of caudal luring and concomitant speculations.Prey luring in general is a field muddled by false identification. The difficulty is that there are a number of other behavioral interpretations for a wiggling appendage, and luring-like motions are associated with several other behavioral contexts (e.g., defense, stress, etc.). Caudal luring is thought to have evolved from a caudally localized intention movement (a behavior derived from locomotor movements). Essentially, the act of remaining stationary while sensing prey produces general nervous system excitation that gets released in the form of tail movements. Caudal luring is not merely tail undulations, but must specifically be attractive to prey. Caudal distraction is another behavior used by snakes, and the tail motions are very similar to caudal luring. The difference is in the snake's posture and especially in the nature and outcome of the behavior in reference to the encounter with prey. Other caudal luring-like movements occur as warning signals and are induced by stressful circumstances. Thus identifying caudal luring entails observing the effect that tail movements have on prey species, a burden of evidence that is woefully lacking in much of the literature on this intriguing behavior.".
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- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Acanthophis.
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- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Boidae.
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ethology.
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mimicry.
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Colubridae.
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Colubrids.
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Deception_in_animals.
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Elapidae.
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Elapids.
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Mimicry.
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Pelican_eel.
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Pit_viper.
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Pitvipers.
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Predation.
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Predator.
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Python_(genus).
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Pythons.
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Rattlesnake.
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Tail.
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Tasselled_wobbegong.
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Viper_(animal).
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLink Viperidae.
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- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLinkText "Caudal lure".
- Caudal_luring wikiPageWikiLinkText "Caudal luring".
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- Caudal_luring subject Category:Ethology.
- Caudal_luring subject Category:Mimicry.
- Caudal_luring hypernym Use.
- Caudal_luring type Science.
- Caudal_luring type Subfield.
- Caudal_luring comment "Caudal luring is the use of tail movements employed by a predator to attract prey animals. It is a form of mimicry classified formally as aggressive mimicry, but perhaps better described by the term feeding mimicry. It is also an example of deception in animals. The behavior is employed by a number of snake species and allegedly by two lizards, though other interpretations (e.g., distraction) seem more plausible for the lizards.".
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