Author:
Giraldeau Luc-Alain,Lefebvre Louis
Abstract
The crop contents of 57 urban rock doves (Columba livia) that died accidentally during a capture and tagging programme revealed a very strong degree of individual variation in feeding preferences. This demonstrates that gregarious foragers exploiting coarse-grained habitats do not always copy each other's food choices. The existence of such individual variability is a necessary condition for the establishment of skill pools in flocks of feral pigeons.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Animal Science and Zoology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Cited by
30 articles.
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