The effect of background cuing on prey detection

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 963-972

  Kono, Henry ^a,d   Reid, Pamela J ^b,c   Kamil, Alan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CRYPSIS; PREY LOCATION; VEGETATION;

AVES; CATOCALA; CATOCALA ILIA; CATOCALA RELICTA; CRYPSIS; CYANOCITTA; CYANOCITTA CRISTATA; ILIA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; QUERCUS;

EID: 0031794249     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0847     Document Type: Article

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