Fourteen Security Lessons from Antipredator Behavior
Fourteen Security Lessons from Antipredator Behavior
This chapter presents fourteen lessons derived from the study of antipredator behavior that are relevant to designing security systems to manage terrorist threats, dealing with insurgencies, and managing ongoing biosecurity challenges. Examining the diversity of antipredator adaptations highlights, from a perspective directly concerned with life and death, the fact that we must be comfortable living with risk. Completely avoiding risk is impossible, and by trying to do so, we will suffer other costs. In this chapter, nonhuman antipredator behavior provides several insights into how costly responses can be avoided.
Keywords: antipredator behavior, security, terrorist threats, insurgencies, biosecurity challenges
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