Defecation initiates walking in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2018.11.004
Abstract: Feces provides information about the donor and potentially attracts both conspecifics and predators and also parasites. The excretory system must be coordinated with other behaviors in insects. We found that crickets started walking forward following… read more here.
Keywords: intact crickets; defecation initiates; defecation; forward walking ... See more keywords