Abstract
AbstractAnt‐snatching assassin bugs carry a 'backpack’ of ant corpses as an antipredator strategy. From photographs, we quantified the relative size and number of ants in these backpacks. We found a trade‐off between size and number of carried ants, suggesting that trophic allometry has implications beyond energy acquisition, potentially affecting camouflage.Abstract in Portuguese is available with online material
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