Boldness traits, not dominance, predict exploratory flight range and homing behaviour in homing pigeons
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Boldness traits, not dominance, predict exploratory flight range and homing behaviour in homing pigeons.
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 cha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0234