Bird sky networks: how do avian scavengers use social information to find carrion?

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  2014-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/13-0574.1PMID 25163114
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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