Scavengers on the Move: Behavioural Changes in Foraging Search Patterns during the Annual Cycle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  López López, Pascual ^a   Benavent Corai, José ^b   García Ripollés, Clara ^a   Urios, Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCAVENGER;

AFRICA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BIRD; BREEDING; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; COGNITION; EUROPE; FEMALE; MALE; MOTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; OPTIMAL FORAGING; PREY; TELEMETRY; VULTURE;

AFRICA; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FALCONIFORMES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; SEX FACTORS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; NEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS;

EID: 84872820103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054352     Document Type: Article

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