Prey plumage adaptation against falcon attack

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7036, 2005, Pages 973-974

  Palleroni, Alberto ^a,c   Miller, Cory T ^b   Hauser, Marc ^a   Marler, Peter ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLUMAGE; PREDATION; PREY SELECTION;

ARTICLE; BIRD; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIGEON; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADAPTATION; AGING; ANIMAL; COLOR; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTION; FALCONIFORMES; FEATHER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PIGMENTATION; PREDATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AVES; COLUMBA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGING; ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR; COLUMBIDAE; EVOLUTION; FALCONIFORMES; FEATHERS; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 17844384767     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/434973b     Document Type: Article

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