Inter-individual variability in fear of humans and relative brain size of the species are related to contemporary urban invasion in birds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Carrete, Martina ^a,b   Tella, José L ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FLIGHT; NONHUMAN; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES INVASION; URBAN AREA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URBANIZATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; CITY; ECOSYSTEM; FLYING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AVES;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BRAIN; CITIES; ECOSYSTEM; FEAR; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79955429143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018859     Document Type: Article

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