The use and transfer of information about predation risk in flocks of wintering finches

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1218-1226

  Roth II, Timothy C ^a,b   Cox, Jonathan G ^a   Lima, Steven L ^a  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PASSERINE; PREDATION RISK;

AVES; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; FRINGILLIDAE;

EID: 55949083992     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01572.x     Document Type: Article

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