- Research Article
22- 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1975.tb00858.x
SIMULTANEOUS SELECTIVE PREDATION ON TWO FEATURES OF A MIXED SIBLING SPECIES POPULATION.
- Dec 01, 1975
- Evolution
- C R Bantock + 2 more +2
Specific searching images (Tinbergen, 1960) are sometimes adopted by predators hunting for their prey (Croze, 1970; Popham, 1941; Manley et al., 1972). Consequently the predator over-eats those species, or morphs in a visually polymorphic species, which occur at higher relative frequencies than others. Clark (1962a,b) has suggested that this type of behaviour could have several consequences for a polymorphic prey population:
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