A behavioural shutdown can make sleeping safer: a strategic perspective on the function of sleep

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 189-197

  Lima, Steven L ^a   Rattenborg, Niels C ^b  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

antipredator behaviour; optimality theory; predation; sleep; vigilance

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; PREDATION RISK; SLEEP; VIGILANCE; VULNERABILITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 34547837642     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.12.007     Document Type: Article

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