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... predators are repelled and that mobbing adults are rarely captured . Hans Kruuk con- ducted a two - year study of predation at a black - headed gull colony ; during this time he saw many crows and herring gulls attacked while foraging ...
... predators are repelled and that mobbing adults are rarely captured . Hans Kruuk con- ducted a two - year study of predation at a black - headed gull colony ; during this time he saw many crows and herring gulls attacked while foraging ...
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... predator . The second is " flash expansion " in which the members of a school that is under attack appears to explode outward away from the onrushing predator . One counter to these tactics employed by some predators is to forage in ...
... predator . The second is " flash expansion " in which the members of a school that is under attack appears to explode outward away from the onrushing predator . One counter to these tactics employed by some predators is to forage in ...
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... predators and more time foraging ) [ 124 , 357 , 431 ] . There is evidence that in ground- nesting gulls the central nesting territories are claimed by ... predators . Imagine that a region contains ten predators , each of 324 CHAPTER TEN.
... predators and more time foraging ) [ 124 , 357 , 431 ] . There is evidence that in ground- nesting gulls the central nesting territories are claimed by ... predators . Imagine that a region contains ten predators , each of 324 CHAPTER TEN.
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NATURAL SELECTION | 5 |
Alternative Hypotheses | 11 |
Experimental Tests of Evolutionary Predictions | 17 |
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