How mixed-species foraging flocks develop in response to benefits from observational learning

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1461-1469

  Sasvári, Lajos ^a   Hegyi, Zoltán ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FLOCKING; FORAGING; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LEARNING BEHAVIOUR;

AVES; PARUS MAJOR; PARUS PALUSTRIS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0032103624     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0734     Document Type: Article

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