Vigilance and group size: Early studies, the edge effect, secondary defences, the double advantage trade-off and the future

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 129-131

  Lazarus, John ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COMPETITION; CONFUSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HEAD MOVEMENT; HERD; MAMMAL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NOTE; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREDICTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES COMPARISON; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037710535     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(03)00006-8     Document Type: Note

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