Island tameness: living on islands reduces flight initiation distance.

Volume: 281, Issue: 1777, Pages: 20133019 - 20133019
Published: Feb 22, 2014
Abstract
One of Darwin's most widely known conjectures is that prey are tame on remote islands, where mammalian predators are absent. Many species appear to permit close approach on such islands, but no comparative studies have demonstrated reduced wariness quantified as flight initiation distance (FID; i.e. predator–prey distance when the prey begins to flee) in comparison with mainland relatives. We used the phylogenetic comparative method to assess...
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Island tameness: living on islands reduces flight initiation distance.
Published Date
Feb 22, 2014
Volume
281
Issue
1777
Pages
20133019 - 20133019
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