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The Feeding Behavior of Costa Rican Velvet Worms: Food Hiding, Parental Feeding Investment and Ontogenetic Diet Shift (Onychophora: Peripatidae)
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: Received: 8 November 2018 / Approved: 12 November 2018 / Online: 12 November 2018 (04:51:33 CET)
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Abstract
We report, for the first time in onychophorans, food hiding, parental feeding investment and an ontogenetic diet shift, from adhesive to prey, after their first two weeks of life.
Keywords
feeding behavior; Peripatidae; invertebrate behavior; undescribed Costa Rican onychophorans; parental investment
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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