Water bathing alters the speed-accuracy trade-off of escape flights in European starlings

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 801-807

  Brilot, Ben O ^a   Asher, Lucy ^b   Bateson, Melissa ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHING WATER; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PASSERINE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; VELOCITY; WATER;

AVES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 70349163327     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.07.022     Document Type: Article

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