Personality and Information Gathering in Free-Ranging Great Tits

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  van Overveld, Thijs ^a   Matthysen, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GREAT TIT; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUMMER; WILD ANIMAL; WINTER;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BELGIUM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVATION; PASSERIFORMES; PERSONALITY; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84873250970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054199     Document Type: Article

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