Vigilance behaviour and fitness consequences: Comparing a solitary foraging and an obligate group-foraging mammal

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1097-1107

  Le Roux, Aliza ^a,d   Cherry, Michael I ^a   Gygax, Lorenz ^b   Manser, Marta B ^c  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Group foraging; Meerkats; Solitary foraging; Vigilance; Yellow mongoose

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSPECIFIC; FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; MAMMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL; VIGILANCE;

CARNIVORA; CYNICTIS PENICILLATA; HERPESTIDAE; MAMMALIA; SURICATA SURICATTA;

EID: 67349192217     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-009-0762-1     Document Type: Article

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