The effect of personality on social foraging: Shy barnacle geese scrounge more

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1681, 2010, Pages 601-608

  Kurvers, Raif H J M ^a   Prins, Herbert H T ^a   Van Wieren, Sipke E ^a   Van Oers, Kees ^b   Nolet, Bart A ^b   Ydenberg, Ronald C ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Barnacle goose; Boldness; Branta leucopsis; Foraging strategy; Personality; Producer scrounger game

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PRODUCER-SCROUNGER INTERACTION; WATERFOWL;

ANIMALIA; ANSER; BRANTA LEUCOPSIS; THORACICA;

EID: 76249134176     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1474     Document Type: Article

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