Evidence of social information on food location in a ring-billed gull colony, but the birds do not use it

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 175-182

  Racine, François ^a   Giraldeau, Luc Alain ^a   Patenaude Monette, Martin ^a   Giroux, Jean François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bird colony; Food searching strategy; Foraging; Larus delawarensis; Public information; Qu bec; Ring billed gull; Social information; Social learning

Indexed keywords

COLONY; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD QUALITY; GPS; LEARNING; NEST SITE; NEST STRUCTURE; NESTING; PREY LOCATION; SEABIRD; SOCIAL NETWORK; STOPOVER;

AVES; LARUS DELAWARENSIS;

EID: 84862677004     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.04.028     Document Type: Article

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