The Utility of Scatter Feeding as Enrichment: Do Broiler Chickens Engage with Scatter–Fed Items?
Animals, 2021 In recent years, welfare certification companies have encouraged the use of scatter feeding as enrichment material, though there is little scientific evidence to support a scatter feeding program.
Brittany Wood +3 more
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Images as proximity sensors : the incidence of conspecific foraging in Antarctic fur seals [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Although there have been recent advances in the development of animal-attached ‘proximity’ tags to remotely record the interactions of multiple individuals, the efficacy of these devices depends on the instrumentation of sufficient animals ...
Staniland, Iain J +10 more
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Why is Coccinella septempunctata so successful? (A point-of-view)
European Journal of Entomology, 2008 Factors were examined that could be responsible for the predominance of Coccinella septempunctata (C7) in most habitats of the Palaearctic and for its successful invasion of the Nearctic Region.
Ivo HODEK, J.P. MICHAUD
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Density-dependent, central-place foraging in a grazing herbivore: competition and tradeoffs in time allocation near water [PDF]
, 2015 Optimal foraging theory addresses one of the core challenges of ecology: predicting the distribution and abundance of species. Tests of hypotheses of optimal foraging, however, often focus on a single conceptual model rather than drawing upon the ...
Medill, SA +5 more
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Experimental studies of social foraging in budgerigars, Melopsittacus undulatus [PDF]
, 2015 Many animals are social foragers. Foraging with others may confer a number of advantages, but is also likely to present a number of challenges that are not encountered by solitary foragers.
Cowie, Alice
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Foraging and roosting habitat of Eastern Whip-poor-wills in the northeastern United States
Journal of Field Ornithology, 2022 The Eastern Whip-poor-will (Antrostomus vociferus: hereafter whip-poor-will) has been declining from historical population levels throughout its range in the northeast. Although whip-poor-wills have been reported to use a variety of habitats, most recent
Kimberly J. Spiller +2 more
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Royal Society Open Science, 2023 A species may partition its realized ecological niche along bionomic and scenopoetic axes due to intraspecific competition for limited resources. How partitioning manifests depends on resource needs and availability by and for the partitioning groups ...
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Animals, 2013 The North Island kākā (Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis), a threatened New Zealand native parrot, was successfully reintroduced to an urban sanctuary in Wellington, New Zealand.
Kerry E. Charles, Wayne L. Linklater
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Foraging ecology of the African Penguin Spheniscus demersus in relation to ocean physical processes. [PDF]
, 2012 Includes abstract.This research demonstrated the dual utility of bio-loggers as a method for generating accurate, high-resolution oceanographic data. These data can be used in future studies, generating a cross disciplinary platform for research.
Van Eeden, Rowen Brandon
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What Drives Bird Vision? Bill Control and Predator Detection Overshadow Flight
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2017 Although flight is regarded as a key behavior of birds this review argues that the perceptual demands for its control are met within constraints set by the perceptual demands of two other key tasks: the control of bill (or feet) position, and the ...
Graham R. Martin
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