Behavioural adjustment in response to increased predation risk: A study in three duck species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Zimmer, Cédric ^a   Boos, Mathieu ^b   Bertrand, Frédéric ^a   Robin, Jean Patrice ^a   Petit, Odile ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b Research Agency in Applied Ecology Naturaconst   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BODY SIZE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCK; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROOMING; MALE; MALLARD; NONHUMAN; PREDATION RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP TIME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STARVATION; TEAL; TUFTED DUCK; WINTER; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; RISK FACTOR;

ANAS; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; AYTHYA FULIGULA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DUCKS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RISK FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79955394568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018977     Document Type: Article

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