Social networking in territorial great tits: Slow explorers have the least central social network positions

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 98, Issue , 2014, Pages 95-102

  Snijders, Lysanne ^a,b   van Rooij, Erica P ^a   Burt, John M ^c   Hinde, Camilla A ^a   van Oers, Kees ^b   Naguib, Marc ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Encounternet; Exploration behaviour; Familiarity; Great tits; Proximity; Radiotracking; Social networks; Territorial system

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FAMILIARITY; PASSERINE; RADIOTELEMETRY; SOCIAL NETWORK; TERRITORIALITY;

EID: 84908604637     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.09.029     Document Type: Article

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