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The Feeding Behavior of Costa Rican Velvet Worms: Food Hiding, Parental Feeding Investment and Ontogenetic Diet Shift (Onychophora: Peripatidae)
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08 November 2018
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12 November 2018
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Abstract
We report, for the first time in onychophorans, food hiding, parental feeding investment and an ontogenetic diet shift, from adhesive to prey, after their first two weeks of life.
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Subject: Biology and Life Sciences - Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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