Learning to Choose Among Social Foraging Strategies in Adult House Sparrows (Passer domesticus)

Ethology

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1111-1121

  Belmaker, Amos ^a,b   Motro, Uzi ^c   Feldman, Marcus W ^d   Lotem, Arnon ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; PASSERINE; PRODUCER-SCROUNGER INTERACTION;

AVES; LONCHURA PUNCTULATA; MYRISTICA FRAGRANS; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 84867097753     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eth.12013     Document Type: Article

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