Making heads turn: Association between head movements during vigilance and perceived predation risk in brown-headed cowbird flocks

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Fernández Juricic, Esteban ^a   Beauchamp, Guy ^b   Treminio, Ronald ^c   Hoover, Melissa ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antipredator vigilance; Brown headed cowbird; Group density; Group size; Head movement; Molothrus ater; Spatial position

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GROUP SIZE; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASSERINE; PREDATION RISK; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VIGILANCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MOLOTHRUS ATER;

EID: 80051671697     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.06.014     Document Type: Article

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