Social information, social feeding, and competition in group-living goats (Capra hircus)

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 103-107

  Shrader, Adrian M ^a   Kerley, Graham I H ^a   Kotler, Burt P ^b   Brown, Joel S ^c  

^a NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fear; Group foraging; Harvest rates; Intraspecific competition; Social information

Indexed keywords

FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GOAT; GROUP BEHAVIOR; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; PATCH DYNAMICS;

CAPRA HIRCUS;

EID: 33845899950     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arl057     Document Type: Article

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