Contagious fear: Escape behavior increases with flock size in European gregarious birds

Contagious fear: Escape behavior increases with flock size in European gregarious birds

Abstract Flight initiation distance (FID), the distance at which individuals take flight when approached by a potential (human) predator, is a tool for understanding predator–prey interactions. Among the factors affecting FID, tests of effects of group size (i.e., number of potential prey) on FID ha...

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Main Authors: Federico Morelli, Yanina Benedetti, Mario Díaz, Tomas Grim, Juan Diego Ibáñez‐Álamo, Jukka Jokimäki, Marja‐Liisa Kaisanlahti‐Jokimäki, Kunter Tätte, Gábor Markó, Yiting Jiang, Piotr Tryjanowski, Anders Pape Møller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-05-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
birds
dilution effect
fear response
FID
gregariousness
human disturbance
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5193

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https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5193

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