Sleeping gulls monitor the vigilance behaviour of their neighbours

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 9-11

  Beauchamp, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anti predator vigilance; Group size; Gulls; Larus sp.; Sleep; Visual monitoring

Indexed keywords

CHEATING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; PREDATION RISK; SEABIRD; VIGILANCE; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIRD; GROOMING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; ANIMAL; CHARADRIIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AVES; LARUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHARADRIIFORMES; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SLEEP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 63249100831     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0490     Document Type: Article

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