Scrounging tactics in free-ranging ravens, Corvus corax

Ethology

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 993-1009

  Bugnyar, Thomas ^b   Kotrschal, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREDATION RISK; PRODUCER-SCROUNGER INTERACTION; SCAVENGER; SOCIAL STATUS;

CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; CORVUS; CORVUS CORAX; LETHRINIDAE; SUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 18744383608     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2002.00832.x     Document Type: Article

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