TY - JOUR T1 - Social-maternal relations in Coelotes terrestris (Araneae, Agelenidae): influence of the female reproductive state on its tolerance towards conspecific spiderlings JF - Behavioural Processes Y1 - 1996 A1 - Assi Bessekon, D. A1 - Horel, A. SP - 19 EP - 26 KW - Behaviour KW - Coelotes terrestris (Araneae). KW - Coelotes terrestris [Reproduction / / Female state effect on tolerance KW - conspecific young KW - effects of reproductive state] [Social behaviour / / KW - Reproduction KW - Reproductive behaviour KW - towards conspecific young] [Parental care / / Female tolerance towards AB - Recent studies have shown that maternal prey-supply activity in Coelestes terrestris depends on a specific internal state of the female linked with the emergence of its progeny. The present study clarifies the conditions which underlie female tolerance towards the young. Females at various stages of the reproductive cycle were each confronted with a group of ten 3-week-old spiders for 24 hours. Nursing and post-dispersal females perfectly tolerated the young presented to them while pre-laying and incubating females, on the contrary, were rather hostile and killed a number of the young presented to them. The difference in the attitude of the two categories of females shows that tolerance towards the young, like the prey-supply activity, depends on its reproductive state. VL - 36 SN - 0376-6357 UR - ://ZOOREC:ZOOR13400014842 N1 - ZOOR13400014842 ER -