Testing for peripheral vigilance: Do birds value what they see when not overtly vigilant?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1165-1171

  Bednekoff, Peter A ^a   Lima, Steven L ^b  

^a EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; VIGILANCE; VISION;

AVES; JUNCO HYEMALIS;

EID: 17844396241     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.07.020     Document Type: Article

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