Different forms of vigilance in response to the presence of predators and conspecifics in a group-living mammal, the European rabbit

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 287-297

  Monclús, Raquel ^a   Rödel, Heiko G ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONSPECIFIC; LAGOMORPH; PREDATOR; RAPTOR; VIGILANCE;

ANIMALIA; BUTEO BUTEO; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 39049127490     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01463.x     Document Type: Article

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