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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Variation in food defence as a function of local ecological conditions in the Zenaida dove

Goldberg, Joanna L. January 1998 (has links)
Two populations of Barbados Zenaida dove (Zenaida aurita) have in previous work been found to use two radically different modes of feeding competition. The St. James (StJ) population is territorial; it competes aggressively with conspecifics but scramble competes with heterospecifics. The Deep Water Harbour (DWH) population forages nonaggressively in large homospecfic flocks. Earlier studies linking these social differences with differences in individual and social learning suggest that Z. aurita is ideal for testing predictions from Brown's (1964) theory of economic defendability. Firstly, the hypothesis that resource defence will increase as the spatial clumping and temporal predictability of a resource increases was tested at 6 sites at DWH with a randomized complete block design. Secondly, spatial distribution of food was manipulated at both DWH and StJ in an attempt to alter the mode of foraging competition at DWH from scramble to interference, and to elicit group-feeding in the otherwise territorial StJ doves. As predicted, rates of aggression per intruder were highest for those sites at DWH receiving a spatially clumped and temporally predictable food source. Unlike those at DWH, doves from StJ did not modify their mode of foraging competition in response to variations in spatial distribution, but rather as a consequence of increased resource density. Interference competition appears to be the default strategy for Zenaida doves, with birds switching to scramble competition when a threshold of resource density is reached, only to revert back to aggressive defence when the spatial clumping and temporal predictability of food increases.
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Variation in food defence as a function of local ecological conditions in the Zenaida dove

Goldberg, Joanna L. January 1998 (has links)
No description available.
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The role of intervening variables in learning differences between group-foraging and territorial columbids /

Seferta, Angela. January 1998 (has links)
Previous work on feral pigeons (Columba livia) and zenaida doves (Zenaida aurita) suggests that both individual and social learning varies with type of competition: rapid non-aggressive feeding is associated with rapid individual learning as well as rapid social learning from the tutor types a bird usually feeds with in the field. Comparative learning tests, however, may be influenced by intervening variables like neophobia and tameness: tests are always run on captive animals by human experimenters using novel stimuli. / This thesis compares pigeons to territorial and group-feeding zenaida doves on their response to novel stimuli in the field and in captivity, in the presence or absence of humans. In single cages, tameness and neophobia co-vary with learning: pigeons are more rapid than doves at learning, at interacting with a novel apparatus and at feeding in the absence of the human; territorial zenaida doves are slower than group-feeding doves on all three tests. Multiple regressions show that neophobia and tameness explain an important part of the variance in learning. These results are confirmed by a re-analysis of data previously obtained on finches (Whittle, 1996), where neophobia predicts individual learning which in turn predicts social learning. / In the field, however, neophobia has opposite effects: territorial zenaida doves now show the smallest effect of novel stimuli on feeding latency. Experiments that test evolutionary predictions about learning using captive animals are thus open to questions of internal and external validity: when we measure comparative performance on a captive learning test, is it really learning we are measuring and does it mirror, as it should, adjustment to environmental novelty in the field?
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The role of intervening variables in learning differences between group-foraging and territorial columbids /

Seferta, Angela. January 1998 (has links)
No description available.
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Diversité génétique individuelle, différenciation morphologique et comportementale entres les sexes, patterns d'appariement et paramètres démographiques chez une espèce d'oiseau tropicale et monogame, la tourterelle à queue carrée, Zenaida Aurita / Individual genetic diversity, morphological and behavioral differentiation between sexes, patterns and demographic parameters in a tropical and monogamous bird species, the Zenaida dove, Zenaida aurita

Quinard, Aurélie 12 December 2013 (has links)
La recherche en écologie comportementale est affectée par un biais notoire en faveur des oiseaux des zones tempérées, en dépit de la plus grande diversité des espèces tropicales et des conditions naturelles radicalement éloignées qui rendent les connaissances sur les espèces tempérées peu pertinentes pour les espèces tropicales.Nous proposons de combler le manque d’informations concernant les oiseaux tropicaux via l’étude d’une espèce socialement monogame, se reproduisant et défendant un territoire toute l’année, la Tourterelle à queue carrée, Zenaida aurita. Pour commencer, nous avons cherché à déterminer le caractère sexuellement mono- ou dichromatique de la coloration du plumage et si celui-ci reflétait la qualité individuelle. Nous avons ensuite exploré les patterns d’appariements au sein des couples selon le degré d’hétérozygotie et la taille du corps. Afin d’établir la force des liens du couple, nous avons évalué le taux de divorce, les hypothèses pouvant expliquer les cas répertoriés, et les conséquences du changement de partenaire. Ceci a été suivi par la caractérisation des rôles des sexes au sein des couples selon diverses activités. Des analyses de capture-marquage-recapture ont permis d’estimer le taux de survie ainsi que l’influence du degré d’hétérozygotie et de la taille de l’aile sur la survie. La Tourterelle à queue carrée paraît suivre les spécificités comportementales, écologiques et démographiques caractérisant les espèces tropicales à monogamie pérenne / Research in avian behavioral ecology is affected by a known bias in favour of temperate species despite the greatest diversity of tropical species and the radically remote natural conditions which make knowledge of temperate species hardly relevant to tropical species.We propose to reduce the lack of information about tropical birds through the study of a socially monogamous species, reproducing and defending an all-purpose territory all year round, the Zenaida dove, Zenaida aurita. We used monitoring data from a population of ringed birds in Barbados for six years. First, we focused on plumage coloration both to ascertain their sexually mono- or dichromatic nature and whether plumage colour reflects individual quality. We then explored pairing patterns in relation to genome-wide heterozygosity and body size (tarsus length, wing chord). To determine the strength of pair bonding, we assessed divorce rate, evaluated which hypotheses could explain divorce cases and listed the consequences of mate loss and mate switching. It was followed by the characterization of sex roles within pairs during various activities (singing, nest building, juvenile care, territorial defence). Capture-mark-recapture analysis allowed us to estimate survival rate as well as influence of heterozygosity degree and wing chord on individual survival. Zenaida dove appears to conform to the behavioral, ecological and demographic features characterizing tropical species with perennial monogamy
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Diversité génétique individuelle, différenciation morphologique et comportementale entres les sexes, patterns d'appariement et paramètres démographiques chez une espèce d'oiseau tropicale et monogame, la tourterelle à queue carrée, Zenaida Aurita

Quinard, Aurélie 12 December 2013 (has links) (PDF)
La recherche en écologie comportementale est affectée par un biais notoire en faveur des oiseaux des zones tempérées, en dépit de la plus grande diversité des espèces tropicales et des conditions naturelles radicalement éloignées qui rendent les connaissances sur les espèces tempérées peu pertinentes pour les espèces tropicales.Nous proposons de combler le manque d'informations concernant les oiseaux tropicaux via l'étude d'une espèce socialement monogame, se reproduisant et défendant un territoire toute l'année, la Tourterelle à queue carrée, Zenaida aurita. Pour commencer, nous avons cherché à déterminer le caractère sexuellement mono- ou dichromatique de la coloration du plumage et si celui-ci reflétait la qualité individuelle. Nous avons ensuite exploré les patterns d'appariements au sein des couples selon le degré d'hétérozygotie et la taille du corps. Afin d'établir la force des liens du couple, nous avons évalué le taux de divorce, les hypothèses pouvant expliquer les cas répertoriés, et les conséquences du changement de partenaire. Ceci a été suivi par la caractérisation des rôles des sexes au sein des couples selon diverses activités. Des analyses de capture-marquage-recapture ont permis d'estimer le taux de survie ainsi que l'influence du degré d'hétérozygotie et de la taille de l'aile sur la survie. La Tourterelle à queue carrée paraît suivre les spécificités comportementales, écologiques et démographiques caractérisant les espèces tropicales à monogamie pérenne

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