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Professor Robert Ray Jackson

Biological Sciences

Fields of Research

  • Animal behaviour and communication
  • Spider evolution and biology

Researcher Summary

Research interests include animal cognition (perception, search images, selective attention, problem solving, decision making), communication systems, conditional predatory strategies, predator-prey co-evolution and aggressive mimicry.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Biology: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour: Behaviour

Affiliations

Publications


  • Jackson, R.R. and Cross, F.R. (2013) A cognitive perspective on aggressive mimicry. Journal of Zoology (early access online) http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12036. (Journal Article)
  • Nelson, X.J. and Jackson, R.R. (2013) Hunger-driven response by a nectar-eating jumping spider to specific phytochemicals. Chemoecology (early access online) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00049-013-0130-5. (Journal Article)
  • Cerveira, A.M. and Jackson, R.R. (2013) Love is in the air: olfaction-based mate-odour identification by jumping spiders from the genus Cyrba. Journal of Ethology 31(1): 29-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10164-012-0345-x. (Journal Article)
  • Cross, R.F. and Jackson, R.R. (2013) The functioning of species-specific olfactory pheromones in the biology of a mosquito-eating jumping spider from East Africa. Journal of Insect Beavior 26: 131-148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10905-012-9338-4. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R. and Nelson, X.J. (2012) Evarcha culicivora chooses blood-fed Anopheles mosquitoes but other East African jumping spiders do not. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 26(2): 233-235. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2915.2011.00986.x. (Journal Article)
  • Nelson, X.J. and Jackson, R.R. (2012) Fine tuning of vision-based prey-choice decisions by a predator that targets malaria vectors. Journal of Arachnology 40(1): 23-33. (Journal Article)
  • Harland, D.P., Li, D. and Jackson, R.R. (2012) How jumping spiders see the world. In O. Lazareva, T. Shimizu and E.A. Wasserman (Ed.), How animals see the world: Comparative behavior, biology, and evolution of vision: 133-163. New York: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Nelson, X.J., Pratt, A.J., Cheseto, X., Torto, B. and Jackson, R.R. (2012) Mediation of a plant-spider association by specific volatile compounds. Journal of Chemical Ecology 38(9): 1081-1092. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10886-012-0175-x. (Journal Article)
  • Kuja, J.O., Jackson, R.R., Sune, G.O., Karanja, R.N.H., Lagat, Z.O. and Carvell, G.E. (2012) Nectar meals of a mosquito-specialist spider. Psyche 2012: 898721, 7pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/898721. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R. and Nelson, X.J. (2012) Specialized exploitation of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by spiders (Araneae). Myrmecological News 17: 33-49. (Journal Article)
  • Nelson, X.J. and Jackson, R.R. (2012) The discerning predator: decision rules underlying prey classification by a mosquito-eating jumping spider. The Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 2255-2261. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.069609. (Journal Article)
  • Nelson, X.J. and Jackson, R.R. (2012) The role of numerical competence in a specialized predatory strategy of an araneophagic spider. Animal Cognition 15(4): 699-710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-012-0498-6. (Journal Article)
  • Nelson, X.J., Warui, C.M. and Jackson, R.R. (2012) Widespread reliance on olfactory sex and species identification by lyssomanine and spartaeine jumping spiders. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 107(3): 664-677. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01965.x. (Journal Article)
  • Soley, F.G., Jackson, R.R. and Taylor, P.W. (2011) Biology of Stenolemus giraffa (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), a web invading, araneophagic assassin bug from Australia. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 38(4): 297-316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03014223.2011.604092. (Journal Article)
  • Cross, F.R. and Jackson, R.R. (2011) Effects of prey-spider odour on intraspecific interactions of araneophagic jumping spiders. Journal of Ethology 29(2): 321-327. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10164-010-0261-x. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R. and Nelson, X.J. (2011) Evarcha culicivora chooses blood-fed Anopheles mosquitoes but other East African jumping spiders do not. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 26(2): 233-235. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2915.2011.00986.x. (Journal Article)
  • Nelson, X.J. and Jackson, R.R. (2011) Evidence that olfaction-based affinity for particular plant species is a special characteristic of Evarcha culicivora, a mosquito-specialist jumping spider. Journal of Arachnology 39(3): 378-383. http://dx.doi.org/10.1636/Hi11-35.1. (Journal Article)
  • Wignall, A.E., Jackson, R.R., Wilcox, R.S. and Taylor, P.W. (2011) Exploitation of environmental noise by an araneophagic assassin bug. Animal Behaviour 82(5): 1037-1042. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.07.038. (Journal Article)
  • Nelson, X.J. and Jackson, R.R. (2011) Flexible use of anti-predator defences. In M.E. Herberstein (Ed.), Spider Behaviour: Flexibility and Versatility: 99-126. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Cerveira, A.M. and Jackson, R.R. (2011) Interpopulation variation in kairomone use by Cyrba algerina, an araneophagic jumping spider from Portugal. Journal of Ethology 29(1): 121-129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10164-010-0233-1. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R. and Cross, F.R. (2011) Olfaction-based mate-odor identification by jumping spiders from the genus Portia. Journal of Arachnology 39(3): 439-443. http://dx.doi.org/10.1636/Ha11-32.1. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R. and Nelson, X.J. (2011) Reliance on trial and error signal derivation by Portia africana, an araneophagic jumping spider from East Africa. Journal of Ethology 29(2): 301-307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10164-010-0258-5. (Journal Article)
  • Cross, F.R. and Jackson, R.R. (2010) Olfactory search-image use by a mosquito-eating predator. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277: 3173-3178. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.0596. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R., Salm, K. and Nelson, X.J. (2010) Specialized predatory behaviour of two East African assassin bugs. Journal of Insect Science 10: 82. http://www.insectscience.org/10.82/. (Journal Article)
  • Cross, F.R. and Jackson, R.R. (2009) Cross-modality priming of visual and olfactory selective attention by a spider that feeds indirectly on vertebrate blood. Journal of Experimental Biology 212: 1869-1875. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.028126. (Journal Article)
  • Cross, F.R., Jackson, R.R. and Pollard, S.D. (2009) How blood-derived odor influences mate-choice decisions by a mosquito-eating predator. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America 106(46): 19416-19419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904125106. (Journal Article)
  • Cross, F.R. and Jackson, R.R. (2009) How cross-modality effects during intraspecific interactions of jumping spiders differ depending on whether a female-choice or mututal-choice mating system is adopted. Behavioural Processes 80(2): 162-168. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2008.11.001. (Journal Article)
  • Cross, F.R. and Jackson, R.R. (2009) Mate-odour identification by both sexes of Evarcha culicivora, an East African jumping spider. Behavioural Processes 81(1): 74-79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2009.02.002. (Journal Article)
  • Cross, F.R. and Jackson, R.R. (2009) Odour-mediated response to plants by Evarcha culicivora, a blood-feeding jumping spider from East Africa. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 36(2): 75-80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03014220909510142. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R. and Harland, D.P. (2009) One small leap for the jumping spider but a giant step for vision science. Journal of Experimental Biology 212(14): 2129-2132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.022830. (Journal Article)
  • Nelson, X.J. and Jackson, R.R. (2009) The influence of ants on the mating strategy of a myrmecophilic jumping spider (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Natural History 43(11-12): 713-735. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930802610469. (Journal Article)
  • Nelson, X.J. and Jackson, R.R. (2008) Anti-predator crèches and aggregations of ant-mimicking jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 94(3): 475-481. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01006.x. (Journal Article)
  • Cross, F.R., Jackson, R.R. and Pollard, S.D. (2008) Complex display behaviour of Evarcha culicivora, an East African mosquito-eating jumping spider. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 35(2): 151-187. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03014220809510112. (Journal Article)
  • Huseynov, E.F., Jackson, R.R. and Cross, F.R. (2008) The meaning of predatory specialization as illustrated by Aelurillus m-nigrum, an ant-eating jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae) from Azerbaijan. Behavioural Processes 77(3): 389-399. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2007.11.006. (Journal Article)
  • Nelson, X.J. and Jackson, R.R. (2007) Complex display behaviour during the intraspecific interactions of myrmecomorphic jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Natural History 41(25-28): 1659-1678. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930701450504. (Journal Article)
  • Su, K.F., Meier, R., Jackson, R.R., Harland, D.P. and Li, D. (2007) Convergent evolution of eye ultrastructure and divergent evolution of vision-mediated predatory behaviour in jumping spiders. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20(4): 1478-1489. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01335.x. (Journal Article)
  • Cross, F.R., Jackson, R.R., Pollard, S.D. and Walker, M.W. (2007) Cross-modality effects during male-male interactions of jumping spiders. Behavioural Processes 75(3): 290-296. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2007.03.004. (Journal Article)
  • Manda, H., Gouagna, L.C., Nyandat, E., Kabiru, E.W., Jackson, R.R., Foster, W.A., Githure, J.I., Beier, J.C. and Hassanali, A. (2007) Discriminative feeding behaviour of Anopheles gambiae s.s. on endemic plants in western Kenya. Medical & Veterinary Entomology 21(1): 103-111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2915.2007.00672.x. (Journal Article)
  • Manda, H., Gouagna, L.C., Foster, W.A., Jackson, R.R., Beier, J.C., Githure, J.I. and Hassanali, A. (2007) Effect of discriminative plant-sugar feeding on the survival and fecundity of Anopheles gambiae. Malaria Journal 6(1): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-6-113. (Journal Article)
  • Pollard, S.D. and Jackson, R.R. (2007) The Vampire Slayers of Lake Victoria. Natural History 116: 34-37. (Journal Article)
  • Nelson, X.J. and Jackson, R.R. (2007) Vision-based ability of an ant-mimicking jumping spider to discriminate between models, conspecific individuals and prey. Insectes Sociaux 54(1): 1-4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00040-006-0901-x. (Journal Article)
  • Harland, D.P. and Jackson, R.R. (2006) A knife in the back: use of prey-specific attack tactics by araneophagic jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Zoology 269(3): 285-290. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00112.x. (Journal Article)
  • Nelson, X.J. and Jackson, R.R. (2006) Compound mimicry and trading predators by the males of sexually dimorphic Batesian mimics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 273(1584): 367-372. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3340. (Journal Article)
  • Nelson, X.J., Jackson, R.R. and Li, D. (2006) Conditional use of honest signaling by a Batesian mimic. Behavioral Ecology 17(4): 575-580. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arj068. (Journal Article)
  • Cross, F.R. and Jackson, R.R. (2006) From eight-legged automatons to thinking spiders. In K. Fujita and S. Itakura (Ed.), Diversity of Cognition: Evolution, Development, Domestication and Pathology: 188-215. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Jackson, R.R., Cross, F.R. and Carter, C.M. (2006) Geographic variation in a spider's ability to solve a confinement problem by trial and error. International Journal of Comparative Psychology 19(3): 282-296. (Journal Article)
  • Moss, R., Jackson, R.R. and Pollard, S.D. (2006) Hiding in the grass: background matching conceals moths (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) from detection by spider eyes (Araneae: Salticidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 33: 207-214. (Journal Article)
  • Cross, F.R., Jackson, R.R., Pollard, S.D. and Walker, M.W. (2006) Influence of optical cues from conspecific females on escalation decisions during male-male interactions of jumping spiders. Behavioral Processes 73(2): 136-141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2006.04.007. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R., Walker, M.W., Pollard, S.D. and Cross, F.R. (2006) Influence of seeing a female on male-male interactions of a jumping spider, Hypoblemum albovittatum. Journal of Ethology 24(3): 231-238. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10164-005-0185-z. (Journal Article)
  • Nelson, X.J., Jackson, R.R., Li, D., Barrion, A.T. and Edwards, G.B. (2006) Innate aversion to ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and ant mimics: experimental findings from mantises (Mantodea). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 88(1): 23-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00598.x. (Journal Article)
  • Moss, R., Jackson, R.R. and Pollard, S.D. (2006) Mask of wax: secretions of wax conceal aphids from detection by spider's eyes. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 33: 215-220. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R., Nelson, X.J. and Sune, G.O. (2005) A spider that feeds indirectly on vertebrate blood by choosing female mosquitoes as prey. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 102: 15155-15160. (Journal Article)
  • Li, D. and Jackson, R.R. (2005) Influence of diet-related chemical cues from predators on the hatching decisions of egg-carrying spiders. Journal of Chemical Ecology 31: 333-342. (Journal Article)
  • Nelson, X.J. and Jackson, R.R. (2005) Living with the enemy, jumping spiders that mimic weaver ants. Journal of Arachnology 33: 813-819. (Journal Article)
  • Huseynov, E.F., Cross, F.R. and Jackson, R.R. (2005) Natural diet and prey-choice behaviour of Aelurillus muganicus (Araneae:Salticidae), a myrmecophagic jumping spider from Azerbaijan. Journal of Zoology London 267: 159-165. (Journal Article)
  • Cerveira, A.M. and Jackson, R.R. (2005) Specialised predation by Palpimanus sp. on jumping spiders. Journal of East African Natural History 94: 303-317. (Journal Article)
  • Cross, F.R. and Jackson, R.R. (2005) Spider heuristics. Behavioral Processes 69: 125-127. (Journal Article)
  • Nelson, X.J., Jackson, R.R. and Sune, G.O. (2005) Use of Anopheles-specific prey-capture behaviour by the small juveniles of Evarcha culicivora, a mosquito-eating jumping spider. Journal of Arachnology 33: 541-548. (Journal Article)
  • Pollard, S.D. and Jackson, R.R. (2004) Gastropod predation in spiders (Araneae). In G.M. Barker (Ed.), Natural enemies of terrestrial molluscs: 497-503. Wallingford: CAB International. (Chapter in Book)
  • Jackson, R.R. and Barrion, A.T. (2004) Heteropteran predation on terrestrial gastropods. In G.M. Barker (Ed.), Natural enemies of terrestrial molluscs: 483-496. Wallingford: CAB International. (Chapter in Book)
  • Jackson, R.R. and Li, D. (2004) One-encounter search-image formation by araneophagic spiders. Animal Cognition 7: 274-254. (Journal Article)
  • Harland, D.P. and Jackson, R.R. (2004) Portia perceptions: the Umwelt of an araneophagic jumping spider. In F.R. Prete (Ed.), Complex Worlds From Simpler Nervous Systems: 5-40. Cambridge: MIT Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Nelson, X.J., Jackson, R.R., Edwards, G.B. and Barrion, A.T. (2004) Predation by ants on jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Philippines. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 31: 45-56. (Journal Article)
  • Guseinov, E.F., Cerveira, A.M. and Jackson, R.R. (2004) The predatory strategy, natural diet and life cycle of Cyrba algerina, an araneophagic jumping spider (Salticidae: Spartaeinae) from Azerbaijan. New Zealand Journal of Zoology (Journal Article)
  • Li, D. and Jackson, R.R. (2003) A predator's preference for egg-carrying prey: a novel cost of parental care. Behavioural Ecology Sociobiology 55(2): 129-136. (Journal Article)
  • Wesolowska, W. and Jackson, R.R. (2003) Evarcha culicivora sp. nov., a mosquito-eating jumping spider from East Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici 53(2): 335-338. (Journal Article)
  • Li, D. and Jackson, R.R. (2003) Influence of background and prey orientation on an ambushing predator's decisions. Behaviour 140(6): 739-764. (Journal Article)
  • Taylor, P.W. and Jackson, R.R. (2003) Interacting effects of size and prior injury in jumping spider conflicts. Animal Behaviour 65: 787-794. (Journal Article)
  • Cerveira, A.M. and Kackson, R.R. (2003) Stalking decisions of web-invading araneophagic jumping spiders from Australia, Azerbaijan, Israel, Kenya, Portugal, and Sri Lanka: the opportunistic smokescreen tactics of Brettus, Cocalus, Cyrba, and Portia. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 30: 21-30. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R., Clark, R.J. and Harland, D.P. (2002) Behavioural and cognitive influences of kairomones on an araneophagic spider. Behaviour 139: 749-775. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R. and Barrion, A.T. (2002) Foraging behavior, distribution and predators of Dindymus pulcher Stal (Hemiptera: Pyrrhocoridae), a snail-eating bug from the Philippines. The Philippine Entomologist 16(1): 53-67. (Journal Article)
  • Harland, D.P. and Jackson, R.R. (2002) Influence of cues from anterior medial eyes of virtual prey on Portia fimbriata, an araneophagic jumping spider. Journal of Experimental Biology 205: 1861-1868. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R., Pollard, D., Li, D. and Fijn, N. (2002) Interpopulaiton variation in the risk-related decisions by Portia labiata, an araneophagic jumping spider (Araneae, Salticidae), during predatory sequences with spitting spiders. Animal Cognition 5(5): 215-223. (Journal Article)
  • Wilcox, S. and Jackson, R.R. (2002) Jumping spider tricksters: deceit, predation, and cognition. In Bekoff, M.; Allen, C.; Burghardt, G.M. (Ed.), The Cognitive Animal (4 ed.): 27-33. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pollard, S.D. and Jackson, R.R. (2002) Men in black. Asian Geographic 15: 48-59. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R., Pollard, S.D. and Cerveira, C.M. (2002) Opportunisitc use of cognitive smokescreens by araneophagic jumping spiders. Animal Cognition 5: 147-157. (Journal Article)
  • Cerveira, A. and Jackson, R.R. (2002) Prey, predatory behaviour and anti-predator defences of Hygropoda dolomedes and Dendrolycosa sp. (Araneae, Pisauridae), web-building pisaurid spiders from Australia and Sri Lanka. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 29: 119-133. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R. (2002) Trial-and-error derivation of aggressive mimicry signals by Bretus and Cryba, jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Israel, Kenya and Sri Lanka. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 29: 95-117. (Journal Article)
  • Pollard, S.D. and Jackson, R.R. (2002) Tusks, horns and hairy penises. Nature Australia 27(5): 44-53. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R. and Pollard, S.D. (2001) How to stalk a spitting spider. Natural History Magazine 110: 16-18. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R. and Carter, C.M. (2001) Interpopulation variation in use of trial-and-error derivation of aggressive-mimicry signals by Portia labiata from the Philippines. Journal of Insect Behavior 14(6): 799-827. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R., Nelson, X., Pollard, S.D., Edwards, G.B. and Barrion, A.T. (2001) Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) that feed on nectar. Journal of Zoology, London 255: 25-29. (Journal Article)
  • Harland, D.P. and Jackson, R.R. (2001) Prey classification by Portia fimbriata, a salticid spider that specializes at preying on other salticids: species that elicit cryptic stalking. Journal of Zoology, London 255: 445-460. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R. and Li, D. (2001) Prey-capture techniques and prey preferences of Zenodorus durvillei, Z. metallescens and Z. orbiclata, tropical ant-eating jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Australia. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 28: 299-341. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R., Carter, C.M. and Tarsitano, M.S. (2001) Trial-and-error solving of a confinement problem by a jumping spider, Portia fimbriata. Behaviour 138: 1215-1234. (Journal Article)
  • Clark, R.J., Jackson, R.R. and Cutler, B. (2000) Chemical cues from ants influence predatory behavior in Habrocestum pulex (Hentz), an ant-eating jumping spider (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 28: 299-341. (Journal Article)
  • Harland, D.P. and Jackson, R.R. (2000) Cues by which Portia fimbriata, an araneophagic jumping spider, distinguishes jumping-spider prey from other prey. Journal of Experimental Biology 203: 3485-3494. (Journal Article)
  • Harland, D.P. and Jackson, R.R. (2000) Eight-legged cats' and how they see - a review of recent research on jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Cimbebasia 16: 231-240. (Journal Article)
  • Barrion, A.T. and Jackson, R.R. (2000) Prey and life cycle of Dindymus pulcher (Stal), a snail-eating pyrrhocorid bug from the Philippines. The Philippine Agricultural Scientist 83(3): 292-304. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R. (2000) Prey preferences and visual discrimination ability of Brettus, Cocalus and Cyrba, araneophagic jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Australia, Kenya and Sri Lanka. N.Z. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 27: 29-39. (Journal Article)
  • Tarsitano, M., Jackson, R.R. and Kirchner, W. (2000) Signals and signal choices made by araneophagic jumping spiders while hunting the orb-weaving spiders Zygiella x-notata and Zosis geniculatus. Ethology 106: 595--615. (Journal Article)
  • Clark, R.J., Harland, D.P. and Jackson, R.R. (2000) Speculative hunting by an araneophagic salticid spider. Behaviour 137: 1601-1612. (Journal Article)
  • Clark, R.J. and Jackson, R.R. (2000) Web use during predatory encounters between Portia fimbriata, an araneophagic jumping spider, and its preferred prey, other jumping spiders. N.Z. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 27: 129-136. (Journal Article)
  • Harland, D.P., Jackson, R.R. and Macnab, A.M. (1999) Distances at which jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) distinguish between prey and conspecific rivals. Journal of Zoology, London 247: 357-364. (Journal Article)
  • Clark, R.J., Jackson, R.R. and Waas, J.R. (1999) Draglines and assessment of fighting ability in cannibalistic jumping spiders. Journal of Insect Behavior 12(6): 753-766. (Journal Article)
  • Taylor, P.W. and Jackson, R.R. (1999) Habitat-adapted communication in Trite planiceps, a New Zealand jumping spider (Araneae, Salticidae). N.Z. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 26: 127-154. (Journal Article)
  • Li, D., Jackson, R.R. and Barrion, A.T. (1999) Parental and predatory behaviour of Scytodes sp., an araneophagic spitting spider (Araneae: Scytodidae) from the Philippines.. Journal of Zoology, Lond 247: 293--310. (Journal Article)
  • Li, D., Jackson, R.R. and Harland, D.P. (1999) Prey-capture techniques and prey preferences of Aelurillus aerugiosus, A. cognatus, and A. kochi, ant-eating jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 45: 341-359. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R. (1999) Spider Cities of Africa. New Zealand Science Monthly : 10-11. (Journal Article)
  • Taylor, P.W., Jackson, R.R. and Robertson, M.W. (1998) A case of blind spiders buff?: prey-capture by jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) in the absence of visual cues. Journal of Arachnology 26: 369-381. (Journal Article)
  • Wilcox, R.S. and Jackson, R.R. (1998) Cognitive abilities of araneophagic jumping spiders. In I. Pepperberg, A. Kamil and R. Balda (Ed.), Animal Cognition in Nature: 411-433. San Diego: Academic Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Jackson, R.R., Li, D., Fijn, N. and Barrion, A. (1998) Predator-prey Interactions between Aggressive-Mimic Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) and Araneophagic Spitting Spiders (Scytodidae) from the Philippines. Journal of Insect Behavior 11(3): 319--42. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R. and Walls, E.I. (1998) Predatory and scavenging behaviour of Microvelia macgregori (Hemiptera: Veliidae), a water-surface bug from New Zealand. N.Z.. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 25: 23--28. (Journal Article)
  • Whitehouse, M.E.A. and Jackson, R.R. (1998) Predatory behaviour and parental care in Argyrodes flavipes, a social spider from Queensland. Journal of Zoology, London 244: 95-105. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R. and Li, D. (1998) Prey preferences and visual discrimination ability of Cyrba algerina, an araneophagic jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae) with primitive retinae. Israel Journal of Zoology 44: 227--42. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R., Li, D., Barrion, A.T. and Edwards, G.B. (1998) Prey-capture techniques and prey preferences of nine species of ant-eating jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Philippines. N.Z.. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 25: 249--72. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R. and Harland, D.P. (1998) Reading a Spider's Mind. New Zealand Science Monthly : 6-8. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R. and Wilcox, R.S. (1998) Spider-Eating Spiders. American Scientist 86: 350--57. (Journal Article)
  • Jackson, R.R. (1998) The Eyes Have It. Natural History Magazine 4: 31. (Journal Article)
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