Communal roosts as structured information centres in the raven, Corvus corax

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1003-1014

  Wright, Jonathan ^a   Stone, Richard E ^a   Brown, Nigel ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information centre hypothesis; Local enhancement; Recruitment; Scavenging; Social foraging

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; PASSERINE; ROOSTING; SCAVENGING (FEEDING); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVUS; CORVUS CORAX; OVIS ARIES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0345016932     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2003.00771.x     Document Type: Article

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