Who are the innovators? A field experiment with 2 passerine species
Julie Morand‐Ferron; Ella F. Cole; James E.C. Rawles; John L. Quinn · 2011 · Behavioral Ecology
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Abstract (excerpt)
Ecological and evolutionary drivers of innovativeness among species are relatively well studied, but the significance of similar variation within species is much less well understood. Using automated foraging devices, we conducted the…
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1093/beheco/arr120