Social information, antipredatory vigilance and flight in bird flocks

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 373-382

  Sirot, Etienne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; PERCEPTION; PREDATION RISK; SIMULATION; VIGILANCE;

AVES;

EID: 33746612761     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.10.028     Document Type: Article

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