Living on the edge: dugongs prefer to forage in microhabitats that allow escape from rather than avoidance of predators

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 93-101

  Wirsing, Aaron J ^a,b   Heithaus, Michael R ^c   Dill, Lawrence M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dugong; Dugong dugon; Galeocerdo cuvier; predation risk; threat sensitivity; tiger shark

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; FEEDING GROUND; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; MICROHABITAT; PLANT COMMUNITY; PREDATION RISK; SEAGRASS; SHARK; SIRENIAN;

ANIMALIA; CHONDRICHTHYES; DUGONG DUGON; GALEOCERDO; GALEOCERDO CUVIER;

EID: 34347212157     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.11.016     Document Type: Article

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