Active anting in captive Cape White-eyes Zosterops pallidus

Lunt, Nicola; Hulley, Patrick E; Craig, Adrian J F K

Title: Active anting in captive Cape White-eyes Zosterops pallidus
Creator: Lunt, Nicola
Creator: Hulley, Patrick E
Creator: Craig, Adrian J F K
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2004
Date: 2004
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/465278
Identifier: vital:76589
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2004.00264.x
Description: The article focuses on active anting in captive Cape white-eyes Zosterops pallidus. In this study, observation of captive birds at close quarters enables to test some of the stimuli that could elicit this behavior. When anting, birds either brush ants through their plumage or allow ants to crawl over them. Anting has been recorded in more than 160 species of passerine birds worldwide. Nevertheless, it is rarely observed in the wild, perhaps because the actions resemble preening movements or dust-bathing. Experiments were designed to clarify whether white-eyes ant before eating ants, and whether anting is correlated with moult in this species.
Format: 3 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Ibis
Relation: Lunt, N., Hulley, P.E. and Craig, A.J., 2004. Active anting in captive Cape White-eyes Zosterops pallidus. Ibis, 146(2)
Relation: Ibis volume 146 number 2 1 3 2004 1474-919X
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