Trade-off between motor performance and behavioural flexibility in the action selection of cricket escape behaviour.

ABSTRACT: To survive a predator's attack successfully, animals choose appropriate actions from multiple escape responses. The motor performance of escape response governs successful survival, which implies that the action selection in escape behaviour is based on the trade-off between competing behavioural benefits. Thus, quantitative assessment of motor performance will shed light on the biological basis of decision-making. To explore the trade-off underlying the action selection, we focused on two distinct wind-elicited escape responses of crickets, running and jumping. We first hypothesized a trade-off between speed and directional accuracy. This hypothesis was rejected because crickets could control the escape direction in jumping as precisely as in running; further, jumping had advantages with

SUBMITTER: Sato N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6889515 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature