Personality matters: Individual variation in reactions of naive bird predators to aposematic prey

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1682, 2010, Pages 723-728

  Exnerová, Alice ^a   Svádová, Kateřina Hotová ^a,b   Fučíková, Eva ^c   Drent, Pieter ^c   Štys, Pavel ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HRADEC KRALOVE   (Czech Republic)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aposematic insects; Avoidance learning; Naive predators; Parus; Personality; Pyrrhocoris

Indexed keywords

APOSEMATISM; AVOIDANCE REACTION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; INSECT; LEARNING; MEMORY; NATIVE SPECIES; PASSERINE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

AVES; HEXAPODA; PARUS; PARUS MAJOR; PYRRHOCORIS; PYRRHOCORIS APTERUS;

EID: 77649208177     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1673     Document Type: Article

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