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
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2021
• Subjects: Articles; Fid; Fid The; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8026151/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33854535; https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa036

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 urban envi...