Melanic color-dependent antipredator behavior strategies in barn owl nestlings

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 473-480

  Van Den Brink, Valentijn ^a   Dolivo, Vassilissa ^a   Falourd, Xavier ^b   Dreiss, Amélie N ^a   Roulin, Alexandre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

animal personalities; melanin; natural selection; predation; sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COEXISTENCE; COLOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MELANIN; NATURAL SELECTION; NESTLING; PLUMAGE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RAPTOR; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE;

EID: 84859484638     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arr213     Document Type: Article

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