Cattle egrets are less able to cope with light refraction than are other herons

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 687-694

  Katzir, Gadi ^a   Strod, Tamir ^a,b   Schechtman, Edna ^c   Hareli, Shlomo ^a   Arad, Zeev ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; REFRACTION; WADER;

ARDEIDAE; ARDEOLA RALLOIDES; AVES; BOS TAURUS; BUBULCUS; BUBULCUS IBIS; CICONIIFORMES; EGRETTA GARZETTA; IBIS; NYCTICORAX; NYCTICORAX NYCTICORAX; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 0033104522     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1002     Document Type: Article

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