Adaptive management of body mass by Siberian jays

Authors: Irja Ida Ratikainen, Jonathan Wright

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: body-mass, caching, environmental unpredictability, perisoreus infaustus, rule of thumb, siberian jay, winter fattening

2013

Directed seed dispersal by a scatter-hoarding rodent: the effects of soil water content

Authors: Xianfeng Yi, Guoqiang Liu, Michael A. Steele, Zhen Shen, Changqu Liu

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: directed seed dispersal, scatter-hoarding rodent, siberian chipmunk, soil water content, tamias sibiricus

2013

Foraging dynamics in Steller’s jays: size and viability of cacheable food items

Authors: Christina Rockwell, Pia O. Gabriel, Jeffrey M. Black

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: caching, cyanocitta stelleri, food preference, optimal foraging, perishability, sampling, steller's jay

2013

Eurasian jays, Garrulus glandarius, flexibly switch caching and pilfering tactics in response to social context

Authors: Rachael C. Shaw, Nicola S. Clayton

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: behavioural flexibility, cache protection, corvid, eurasian jay, garrulus glandarius, pilfering, social cognition

2012

Enhanced social learning between siblings in common ravens, Corvus corax

Authors: Christine Schwab, Thomas Bugnyar, Christian Schloegl, Kurt Kotrschal

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: affiliation, cognition, common raven, corvus corax, siblings, social learning, social relations

2008

Twenty-four hour activity budget and scent-marking behaviours of captive margays (Leopardus wiedii) in naturalistic enclosures, Belize

Authors: Nikolas Gour

Publication/Journal: Graduate Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Keywords: activity budget, margay, non-invasive censusing techniques, scent marking

2007