Exploring the role of vision in social foraging: What happens to group size, vigilance, spacing, aggression and habitat use in birds and mammals that forage at night?

Biological Reviews

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 511-525

  Beauchamp, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggression; Birds; Group size; Habitat use; Mammals; Night foraging; Spacing; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ALERTNESS; ASSOCIATION; BIRD; FEEDING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING; HABITAT USE; MAMMAL; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; ODOR; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION; REVIEW; VISION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMALS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34447310556     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2007.00021.x     Document Type: Review

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