A dynamic method to study the transmission of social foraging information in flocks using robots

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 901-911

  Fernández Juricic, Esteban ^a   Gilak, Nima ^a   Mcdonald, J Chase ^a   Pithia, Pritesh ^a   Valcarcel, Anna ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HANDLING TIME; PASSERINE;

ANIMALIA; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS;

EID: 33645126613     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.09.008     Document Type: Article

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