Hummingbirds choose not to rely on good taste: Information use during foraging

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 471-477

  Bacon, Ida ^a   Hurly, T Andrew ^b   Healy, Susan D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

decision making; foraging; hummingbirds; information

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FOOD QUALITY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL; TASTE;

ANIMALIA; SELASPHORUS; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 79955381653     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arr002     Document Type: Article

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