Journal article
Boldness traits, not dominance, predict exploratory flight range and homing behaviour in homing pigeons
- Abstract:
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Group living has been proposed to yield benefits that enhance fitness above the level that would be achieved through living as solitary individuals. Dominance hierarchies occur commonly in these social assemblages, and result, by definition, in resources not being evenly distributed between group members. Determinants of rank within a dominance hierarchy can be associated with morphological characteristics, previous experience of the individual, or personality traits such as exploration tende...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Royal Holloway, University of London
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Funding agency for:
Portugal, S
Grant:
Research Strategy Fund grant
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Royal Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences Journal website
- Volume:
- 372
- Issue:
- 1727
- Pages:
- 20160234
- Publication date:
- 2017-07-03
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-03-22
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2970
- ISSN:
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0962-8436
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:692273
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:692273
- Source identifiers:
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692273
- Deposit date:
- 2017-05-04
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- Copyright holder:
- © 2017 Portugal, et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- This is the author accepted manuscript following peer review version of the article. The final version is available online from Royal Society at: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0234
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