Subtle cues of predation risk: starlings respond to a predator's direction of eye-gaze

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2008-08-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2008.0095PMID 18445559PMCID PMC2587789
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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