Brinkmanship and the sensory-motor limits of pursuit predation
Predators routinely fail to capture prey despite being larger, faster, and more powerful. Half a century ago, theory predicted that prey could evade biomechanically superior predators using brinkmanship, delaying evasive maneuvers until the last possible instant, but this hypothesis has never been tested in the wild. Here, using more than 2,000 hours of high-speed stereo-camera recordings of…
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