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Internal state transition to switch behavioral strategies in cricket phonotaxis

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Abstract
Animals employ multiple behavioral strategies for exploring food and mating partners based on both their internal state and external environment. Here, we examined how cricket phonotaxis, which was considered an innate reactive behavior of females to approach the calling song of conspecific males, depended on these internal and external conditions. Our observation revealed that…..

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Article information:
Internal state transition to switch behavioral strategies in cricket phonotaxis behavior,
Naoto Hommaru, Hisashi Shidara, Noriyasu Ando, and Hiroto Ogawa,
Journal of Experimental Biology, September 17, 2020
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.229732