Collective detection of predatory attack by social foragers: Fraught with ambiguity?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1097-1108

  Lima, Steven L ^a  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR BEHAVIOUR; FLOCKING; VIGILANCE;

ALERTNESS; AMBIGUITY; FEEDING; FORAGER;

EID: 0028982414     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-3472(95)80109-X     Document Type: Article

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