Escape response delays in wintering redshank, Tringa totanus, flocks: Perceptual limits and economic decisions

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1285-1292

  Quinn, John L ^a   Cresswell, Will ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BIRD; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING;

ACCIPITRINAE; ADENOSTOMA SPARSIFOLIUM; TRINGA TOTANUS;

EID: 20444401247     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.10.007     Document Type: Article

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