Producer-scrounger foraging games in starlings: A test of rate-maximizing and risk-sensitive models

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 773-783

  Koops, Marten A ^a,b   Giraldeau, Luc Alain ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMAL FORAGING THEORY; PRODUCER-SCROUNGER MODEL; RATE-MAXIMIZING MODEL; RISK-SENSITIVE FORAGING; STARLING;

STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 0029730116     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0082     Document Type: Article

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