Effects of position and flock size on vigilance and foraging behaviour of the scaled dove Columbina squammata

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 248-252

  Dias, Raphael Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Edge effect; Group size effect; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; VIGILANCE;

AGGRESSION; ALERTNESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOVE; FORAGING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HERD; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; COLUMBIDAE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

SCARDAFELLA SQUAMMATA;

EID: 33750019450     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

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