How unpredictable is the individual scanning process in socially foraging mammals?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 443-454

  Pays, Olivier ^a   Blomberg, Simon P ^b   Renaud, Pierre Cyril ^a,c   Favreau, François René ^a   Jarman, Peter J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Programme ECOFAC/PDZCV   (Central African Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anti predator behaviour; Exponential distribution; Gamma distribution; Group living; Large mammalian herbivores; Poisson process; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MARSUPIAL; PHYLOGENETICS; POISSON RATIO; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; RUMINANT; VIGILANCE;

CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CERVIDAE; KOBUS ELLIPSIPRYMNUS; KOBUS ELLIPSIPRYMNUS DEFASSA; MACROPUS GIGANTEUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 75549089799     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-009-0860-0     Document Type: Article

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