Risk-taking behavior of bull-headed shrikes that recently colonized islands

• Published in: Current Zoology
• Main Authors: Hamao, Shoji, Torikai, Hisahiro, Yoshikawa, Midori, Yamamoto, Yutaka, Ijichi, Tugeru
• Other Authors: Carere, Claudio, National Museum of Nature and Science
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2020
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; Fid; Fid The; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa036; http://academic.oup.com/cz/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/cz/zoaa036/33932386/zoaa036.pdf; http://academic.oup.com/cz/article-pdf/67/2/177/36972025/zoaa036.pdf

Abstract Individuals which have invaded urbanized environments are reported to engage in riskier behaviors, possibly influenced by the scarcity of predators in urbanized areas. Here, we studied the risk-taking behavior of birds which had invaded a new natural environment, rather than an artificial u...