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Social foraging and individual consistency in following behaviour: testing the information centre hypothesis in

Roi Harel1, Orr Spiegel2,3, Wayne M Getz4,5

  • 1Movement Ecology Lab, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem 91904, Israel roi.harel@mail.huji.ac.il.

Proceedings. Biological Sciences
|April 14, 2017
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Keywords:
biotelemetrycommunal roostingfood searchinggroup livingmovement ecologysocial information

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