On the perception of targeting by predators during attacks on socially feeding birds

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 535-542

  Lima, Steven L ^a   Bednekoff, Peter A ^b  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antipredator behaviour; Flocking; Personal information; Predator targeting; Risk dilution; Social information; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PASSERINE; PERCEPTION; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RAPTOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VIGILANCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; FRINGILLIDAE;

EID: 80051666857     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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