What is known and what is not yet known about deflection of the point of a predator’s attack

Doing Without: Jump Performance After Tail Autotomy in Three Species of Plethodontid Salamanders

(2017) Anthony L. Hessel et al.   HERPETOLOGICA

Terrestrial Salamanders Alter Antipredator Behavior Thresholds Following Tail Autotomy

(2017) Margaret M. Bliss et al.   HERPETOLOGICA

Tail regeneration affects the digestive performance of a Mediterranean lizard

(2017) Kostas Sagonas et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

How camouflage works

(2017) Sami Merilaita et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tail regeneration after autotomy revives survival: a case from a long-term monitored lizard population under avian predation

(2017) Jhan-Wei Lin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tail regeneration affects the digestive performance of a Mediterranean lizard

(2017) Kostas Sagonas et al.   Science of Nature

Adaptive constellations of protective marks: eyespots, eye stripes and diversion of attacks by fish

(2016) Karin Kjernsmo et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Visual cues used in directing predatory strikes by the jumping spider Yllenus arenarius (Araneae, Salticidae)

(2016) Maciej Bartos et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Intraspecific competition, not predation, drives lizard tail loss on islands

(2016) Yuval Itescu et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Consequences of lost endings: caudal autotomy as a lens for focusing attention on tail function during locomotion

(2016) Gary Gillis et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Cellular basis of anti-predator adaptation in a lizard with autotomizable blue tail against specific predators with different colour vision

(2016) T. Kuriyama et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Deceived by stripes: conspicuous patterning on vital anterior body parts can redirect predatory strikes to expendable posterior organs

(2016) Gopal Murali et al.   Royal Society Open Science

The movement of “false antennae” in butterflies with “false head” wing patterns

(2015) Tania G. López-Palafox et al.   Current Zoology

Does tail autotomy affect thermoregulation in an accurately thermoregulating lizard? Lessons from a 2200-m elevational gradient

(2015) F. J. Zamora-Camacho et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Moth tails divert bat attack: Evolution of acoustic deflection

(2015) Jesse R. Barber et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The movement of “false antennae” in butterflies with “false head” wing patterns

(2015) Tania G. López-Palafox et al.   Current Zoology

EVIDENCE FOR BATESIAN MIMICRY IN A POLYMORPHIC HOVERFLY

(2014) Malcolm Edmunds et al.   EVOLUTION

Bird attacks on a butterfly with marginal eyespots and the role of prey concealment against the background

(2013) Martin Olofsson et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Two heads are better than one: false head allowsCalycopis cecrops(Lycaenidae) to escape predation by a Jumping Spider,Phidippus pulcherrimus(Salticidae)

(2013) Andrei Sourakov   JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY

Evidence for the Deflective Function of Eyespots in Wild Junonia evarete Cramer (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)

(2013) C E G Pinheiro et al.   NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Spots and stripes: ecology and colour pattern evolution in butterflyfishes

(2013) J. L. Kelley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Eyespots divert attacks by fish

(2013) K. Kjernsmo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Deflective and intimidating eyespots: a comparative study of eyespot size and position inJunoniabutterflies

(2013) Ullasa Kodandaramaiah et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Eyespots interact with body colour to protect caterpillar-like prey from avian predators

(2012) Thomas John Hossie et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Revealed by conspicuousness: distractive markings reduce camouflage

(2012) Martin Stevens et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Evolutionary history of the recruitment of conserved developmental genes in association to the formation and diversification of a novel trait

(2012) Leila T Shirai et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Differential Effect of Tail Autotomy on Sprint Performance between the Sexes in the LizardUta stansburiana

(2012) Matthew L. Anderson et al.   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Tail-assisted pitch control in lizards, robots and dinosaurs

(2012) Thomas Libby et al.   NATURE

Tail Autotomy Does Not Increase Locomotor Costs in the Oriental Leaf-toed Gecko Hemidactylus bowringii

(2012) DING Guohua et al.   Asian Herpetological Research

Tail waving in a lizard (Bassiana duperreyi) functions to deflect attacks rather than as a pursuit-deterrent signal

(2011) Rory S. Telemeco et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Deflective effect and the effect of prey detectability on anti-predator function of eyespots

(2011) Adrian Vallin et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Marginal Eyespots on Butterfly Wings Deflect Bird Attacks Under Low Light Intensities with UV Wavelengths

(2010) Martin Olofsson et al.   PLoS One

Communication theory and the form of receiver-mediated selection

(2010) H. Martin Schaefer et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Colorful tails fade when lizards adopt less risky behaviors

(2009) Dror Hawlena   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Eyespot evolution: phylogenetic insights fromJunoniaand related butterfly genera (Nymphalidae: Junoniini)

(2009) Ullasa Kodandaramaiah   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Losing stability: tail loss and jumping in the arboreal lizard Anolis carolinensis

(2009) G. B. Gillis et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

‘Head for my tail’: a new hypothesis to explain how venomous sea snakes avoid becoming prey

(2009) Arne Redsted Rasmussen et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

On the spot: the absence of predators reveals eyespot plasticity in a marine fish

(2008) Monica Gagliano   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Many-lined sun skinks (Mabuya multifasciata) do not compensate for the costs of tail loss by increasing feeding rate or digestive efficiency

(2008) Yan-Yan Sun et al.   Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology

To cut a long tail short: a review of lizard caudal autotomy studies carried out over the last 20 years

(2008) P. W. Bateman et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Fish and dragonfly nymph predators induce opposite shifts in color and morphology of tadpoles

(2008) J. C. Touchon et al.   OIKOS