Sleeping birds do not respond to predator odour

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Amo, Luisa ^a   Caro, Samuel P ^a   Visser, Marcel E ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHEMICAL CUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR; REST; SLEEP; SMELLING; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BREATHING; CHEMORECEPTOR; DRUG EFFECT; FERRET; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; RISK; URINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; MUSTELIDAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BIRDS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHEMORECEPTOR CELLS; CUES; FEMALE; FERRETS; MALE; ODORS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RESPIRATION; RISK; SLEEP;

EID: 81155134446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027576     Document Type: Article

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