Flycatchers Copy Conspecifics in Nest-Site Selection but Neither Personal Experience nor Frequency of Tutors Have an Effect

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Jaakkonen, Tuomo ^a   Kari, Annemari ^a   Forsman, Jukka T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS; HABITAT SELECTION; NEST SITE SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PLACE PREFERENCE; POPULATION MIGRATION; SOCIAL COPYING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYMBOLISM;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS; SWEDEN;

ANIMALIA; AVES; FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS;

EID: 84875478908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060395     Document Type: Article

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