Vigilance in greater flamingos wintering in southern Tunisia: Age-dependent flock size effect

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 377-385

  Boukhriss, Jihen ^a   Selmi, Slaheddine ^a   Béchet, Arnaud ^b   Nouira, Saïd ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GABES   (Tunisia)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; DIET; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; GROUP SIZE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LEARNING; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; OVERWINTERING; VIGILANCE; WADER;

AFRICA; GULF OF GABES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTH AFRICA; TUNISIA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PHOENICOPTERIDAE; PHOENICOPTERUS;

EID: 33947659995     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01335.x     Document Type: Article

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