Individual feeding preferences in feral groups of rock doves
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Zoology
- Vol. 63 (1) , 189-191
- https://doi.org/10.1139/z85-028
Abstract
The crop contents of 57 urban rock doves (Columba livia) that died accidentally during a capture and tagging programme revealed a very strong degree of individual variation in feeding preferences. This demonstrates that gregarious foragers exploiting coarse-grained habitats do not always copy each other's food choices. The existence of such individual variability is a necessary condition for the establishment of skill pools in flocks of feral pigeons.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: