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Godin & Davis (1995) claimed to have provided experimental evidence fo
r a predator pursuit deterrence function of predator inspection in the
guppy. We doubt that they have shown that inspection behaviour per se
deters attack because their evidence is actually correlational and th
us inherently ambiguous; furthermore we think their methods are flawed
.