Exploring behavioral traits over different contexts in four species of Australian funnel-web spiders.

ABSTRACT: Australian funnel-web spiders are arguably the most venomous spiders in the world, with much research focusing on this aspect of their biology. However, other aspects related to their life history, ecology and behaviour have been overlooked. For the first time, we assessed repeatability, namely risk-taking behaviour, aggressiveness and activity in the contexts of predation, conspecific tolerance and exploration of a new territory in four species of Australian funnel-web spiders: two are closely related, Hadronyche valida and H. infensa, and two have overlapping distributions but occupy different habitats, H. cerberea and Atrax robustus. We also compared behaviors between species. At the species level, we found that H. valida showed consistency in risk-tak

SUBMITTER: Hernandez Duran L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10591153 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature