Losing legs and walking hard: Effects of autotomy and different substrates in the locomotion of harvestmen in the genus Prionostemma

Autor: Jessica Pacheco-Esquivel, Cielo E. Figuerola-Hernández, Farah Carrasco-Rueda, María Natalia Umaña, Marisol Domínguez, Daniel Ramos, Carolina Brizuela, Ignacio Escalante, Willy Delgado, Arturo González-Zamora, María Marta Ayup

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Autotomy, the strategy of voluntarily releasing a leg during an encounter with a potential predator or in agonistic interactions between conspecifics, is common in animals. The potential costs of this behavior have been scarcely studied. In addition,

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http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1636/J15-08.1