Persistent individual differences in tactic use in a producer-scrounger game are group dependent

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 811-816

  Morand Ferron, Julie ^a   Wu, Gi Mick ^a   Giraldeau, Luc Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Game theory; Individual differences; Joining; Lonchura punctulata; Nutmeg mannikin; Personality; Phenotypic plasticity; Producer scrounger; Social foraging

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; GAME THEORY; GROUP BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; PERSISTENCE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRODUCER-SCROUNGER INTERACTION; RECOGNITION; SPECIES FLOCK;

AVES; LONCHURA PUNCTULATA; MYRISTICA FRAGRANS;

EID: 80052765880     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.07.014     Document Type: Article

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