  Organisms may respond to local stimuli that benefit or threaten their
fitness. The adaptive movement behaviour may allow individuals to adjust their
speed to maximise the chances of being in comfort zones, where death risk is
minimal. We investigate spatial cyclic models where the rock-paper-scissors
game rules describe the nonhierarchical dominance. We assume that organisms of
one out of the species can control the mobility rate in response to the
information obtained from scanning the environment. Running a series of
stochastic simulations, we quantify the effects of the movement strategy on the
spatial patterns and population dynamics. Our findings show that the ability to
change mobility to adapt to environmental clues is not reflected in an
advantage in cyclic spatial games. The adaptive movement provokes a delay in
the spatial domains occupied by the species in the spiral waves, making the
group more vulnerable to the advance of the dominant species and less efficient
in taking territory from the dominated species. Our outcomes also show that the
effects of adaptive movement behaviour accentuate whether most individuals have
a long-range neighbourhood perception. Our results may be helpful for
biologists and data scientists to comprehend the dynamics of ecosystems where
adaptive processes are fundamental.
