Foraging opportunities drive interspecific associations between rock kestrels and desert baboons

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 277, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 111-118

  King, A J ^a,b   Cowlishaw, G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chacma baboon; Commensalism; Falco rupicolus; Feeding association; Namib desert; Papio ursinus; Rock kestrel

Indexed keywords

COMMENSAL; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PRIMATE; RAPTOR; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AFRICA; NAMIB DESERT; NAMIBIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AVES; FALCO; HEXAPODA; PAPIO; PAPIO URSINUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 58849090587     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: 14697998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2008.00504.x     Document Type: Article

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