Vigilance Entails Keeping an Eye Out for Predators at the Expense

Essay

Vigilance entails keeping an eye out for predators at the expense of some other activity and qualifies as an antipredator tactic. Obtain a copy of Bednekoff's (1997) paper, "Mutualism among Safe, Selfish Sentinels: A Dynamic Game" (American Naturalist, vol. 150, pp. 373-392). Also, obtain a copy of Wright and colleagues' (2001) paper entitled "Safe Selfish Sentinels in a Cooperative Bird" (Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 70, pp. 1070-1079). How do these two papers integrate what you learned in Chapter 10 (Cooperation) with concepts of antipredator behavior?