Group size effect on vigilance: Evidence from Tibetan gazelle in Upper Buha River, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-28

  Li, Zhongqiu ^a   Jiang, Zhigang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Group vigilance; Herd size; Procapra picticaudata; Ungulate

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GROUP SIZE; RUMINANT; SIZE EFFECT; VIGILANCE;

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTELOPE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; PREDATION; PROCAPRA PICTICAUDATA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUMMER;

ANIMALS; ANTELOPES; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GROUP STRUCTURE; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ASIA; BUHA RIVER; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

GAZELLA; PROCAPRA PICTICAUDATA; UNGULATA;

EID: 40849106386     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.11.011     Document Type: Article

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