Personality affects zebra finch feeding success in a producer-scrounger game

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-67

  David, Morgan ^a,b   Cézilly, Frank ^b,c   Giraldeau, Luc Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Behavioural syndrome; Competition; Exploration; Information use; Scrounger tactic; Social foraging; Speed accuracy trade off; Taeniopygia guttata; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HERITABILITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NATURAL SELECTION; PASSERINE; TRADE-OFF;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 79958782883     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.03.025     Document Type: Article

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