Anti-predatory vigilance and the limits to collective detection: Visual and spatial separation between foragers

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 355-363

  Lima, Steven L ^a   Zollner, Patrick A ^a  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti predator behavior; Birds; Collective detection; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR BEHAVIOUR; GROUP SIZE; MIXED-SPECIES FLOCK; PREDATOR DETECTION; VIGILANCE;

EMBERIZIDAE;

EID: 0029660795     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050252     Document Type: Article

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