biostudies-literatureUnknown343(10)Toussaint-Larde IThis study was supported by funding from European Research Council grant a HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020 Project number: 101028747) and European Research Council Starting Grant SERI-funded (M822.00039) to A.-C. F.In animal behavior, standardizing experimental protocols ensures a rigorous interpretation of the results. However, when working with multisource data, homogeneous standardization is often difficult to attain. This is the case for many studies on feeding kinematics where experimental protocols are carried out using similar but not identical methods. In particular, the impact of the way in which prey is presented remains poorly tested and understood. The aim of this study is to assess whether prey position and the way prey is presented have an impact on the kinematics of prey capture. To do so, we compared the feeding kinematics during the capture of prey presented on the substrate versus prey suspended from tweezers using closely related species of aquatic and terrestrial salamanders. Our Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology1150-1163https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12604684biostudies-literatureTesting the Impact of Prey Presentation Method on the Feeding Kinematics of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ambystomatidae.PMC12604684Fournier MFabre ACToussaint-Larde ILouppe VClavel JHerrel AfalseTesting the Impact of Prey Presentation Method on the Feeding Kinematics of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ambystomatidae.In animal behavior, standardizing experimental protocols ensures a rigorous interpretation of the results. However, when working with multisource data, homogeneous standardization is often difficult to attain. This is the case for many studies on feeding kinematics where experimental protocols are carried out using similar but not identical methods. In particular, the impact of the way in which prey is presented remains poorly tested and understood. The aim of this study is to assess whether prey position and the way prey is presented have an impact on the kinematics of prey capture. To do so, we compared the feeding kinematics during the capture of prey presented on the substrate versus prey suspended from tweezers using closely related species of aquatic and terrestrial salamanders. Our 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z2025 Dec2026-06-05T12:53:26.481Z2026-05-17T03:08:04.339ZS-EPMC126046844083637710.1002/jez.70028