A field test of risk-sensitive foraging in black-capped chickadees (Parus atricapillus)

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Abstract

Consistent with a risk-sensitive foraging mode, chickadees showed a clear, significant preference for the lower variance prey. Results suggest the importance of the incoproation of environmental stochasticity into models of animal foraging. -from Author

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)391-400
Number of pages10
JournalEcology
Volume71
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1990
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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