Bird sky networks: How do avian scavengers use social information to find carrion?

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1799-1808

  Cortés Avizanda, Ainara ^a,b   Jovani, Roger ^b   Donázar, José Antonio ^b   Grimm, Volker ^a,c  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carrion Resources; Foraging; Group Living; Pulsed Resources; Sociality; Spain; Vultures

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; CARRION; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; RAPTOR; SCAVENGER; ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EUSOCIALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; RESOURCE USE;

SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GYPS FULVUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; FALCONIFORMES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SPAIN;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; FALCONIFORMES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; SPAIN;

EID: 84904353078     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0574.1     Document Type: Article

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