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| Title | Vigilance in geese flocks along the Rhine |
| Group | Behavioural Ecology |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 36 |
| Supervisor(s) | Marc Naguib and Lysanne Snijders |
| Examiner(s) | Marc Naguib |
| Contact info | marc.naguib@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2019/10/31 |
| End date | 2025/10/31 |
| Description | One benefit of group living is safety and reduced predation pressure risk. Group living animals often show vigilance behaviour, by scanning the environment, and such vigilance is traded off with other activities such as foraging. Geese are an excellent study system for this as vigilance (head up) can be readily quantified and geese live in various group sizes, allowing to test if vigilance indeed is lower per individual when groups are larger. |
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| Requirements | BHE30306 |