Quantity versus quality: how does level of predation threat affect Cape ground squirrel vigilance?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 625-632

  Unck, C E ^a   Waterman, J M ^a,b   Verburgt, L ^a   Bateman, P W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

antipredator; Cape ground squirrel; foraging; predation risk; risk allocation hypothesis; vigilance; Xerus inauris

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREDATION RISK; REFUGE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK FACTOR; RODENT; VIGILANCE;

SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; XERUS INAURIS;

EID: 69249203515     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.05.028     Document Type: Article

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