Divergent behavior amid convergent evolution: A case of four desert rodents learning to respond to known and novel vipers

• Sonny Shlomo Bleicher ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: bleicher@email.arizona.edu

  Affiliations Tumamoc People and Habitat, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America, Mitrani Department for Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Sde-Boker, Israel, Department of Biological Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America

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• Burt P. Kotler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Burt P. Kotler, Joel S. Brown

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mitrani Department for Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Sde-Boker, Israel

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• Omri Shalev,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Mitrani Department for Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Sde-Boker, Israel

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• Austin Dixon,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Mitrani Department for Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Sde-Boker, Israel

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2459-7422

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• Keren Embar,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Mitrani Department for Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Sde-Boker, Israel

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• Joel S. Brown

  Contributed equally to this work with: Burt P. Kotler, Joel S. Brown

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America, Department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Research Center, Tampa, FL, United States of America

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