Early experience affects producer-scrounger foraging tendencies in the house sparrow

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1465-1472

  Katsnelson, Edith ^a   Motro, Uzi ^b   Feldman, Marcus W ^c   Lotem, Arnon ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Department of Statistics ^*  (Israel)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioural strategies; house sparrow; Passer domesticus; social foraging; social learning

Indexed keywords

FLEDGING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; PASSERINE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 40749138980     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.09.020     Document Type: Article

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