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Feeding behavior of Costa Rican velvet worms: food hiding, parental feeding investment and ontogenetic diet shift (Onychophora: Peripatidae)

  • Barquero González J
  • Vega-Hidalgo A
  • Monge-Nájera J
UNED Research Journal (2019) 11(2) 85-88
DOI: 10.22458/urj.v11i2.2195
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Abstract

We report, for the first time in onychophorans, food hiding, parental feeding investment and an ontogenetic diet shift two weeks after birth: from the parent’s adhesive used to capture prey, to the prey itself.

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Barquero González, J. P., Vega-Hidalgo, A., & Monge-Nájera, J. (2019). Feeding behavior of Costa Rican velvet worms: food hiding, parental feeding investment and ontogenetic diet shift (Onychophora: Peripatidae). UNED Research Journal, 11(2), 85–88. https://doi.org/10.22458/urj.v11i2.2195

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