Detection distance influences escape behaviour in two parids, Parus major and P. caeruleus

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 233-236

  Lind, Johan ^a   Hollén, Linda ^b   Smedberg, Erik ^a   Svensson, Ulrica ^c   Vallin, Adrian ^a   Jakobsson, Sven ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; PREDATION;

AVES; PARUS; PARUS CAERULEUS; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0141795556     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-048X.2003.03097.x     Document Type: Article

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