Balancing the Dilution and Oddity Effects: Decisions Depend on Body Size

BACKGROUND: Grouping behaviour, common across the animal kingdom, is known to reduce an individual's risk of predation; particularly through dilution of individual risk and predator confusion (predator inability to single out an individual for attack). Theory predicts greater risk of predation...

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Autores principales: Rodgers, Gwendolen M., Ward, Jonathan R., Askwith, Beth, Morrell, Lesley J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21750694
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014819

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21750694
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014819

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