Information transfer and gain in flocks: The effects of quality and quantity of social information at different neighbour distances

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 502-511

  Fernández Juricic, Esteban ^a,b   Kacelnik, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Public information; Scanning; Social foraging; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIGILANCE;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 12144287829     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-003-0698-9     Document Type: Article

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