Colour biases are a question of conspecifics' taste

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 825-829

  Skelhorn, John ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aposematism; Chemical defence; Disgust; Distasteful; Domestic chick; Evolution; Gallus gallus domesticus; Innate bias; Social learning; Warning coloration

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; APOSEMATISM; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONSPECIFIC; DECISION MAKING; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GAMEBIRD; LEARNING; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOXIC ORGANISM;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 79952739525     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.01.017     Document Type: Article

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