Video playback and social foraging: simulated companions produce the group size effect in nutmeg mannikins

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 961-966

  Rieucau, Guillaume ^a   Giraldeau, Luc Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

group size effect; Lonchura punctulata; nutmeg manikin; social foraging; video playback

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVERGREEN TREE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; SIZE EFFECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; LONCHURA PUNCTULATA; MYRISTICA FRAGRANS;

EID: 70349187741     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.06.023     Document Type: Article

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