Food predictability and social status drive individual resource specializations in a territorial vulture.

ABSTRACT: Despite increasing work detailing the presence of foraging specializations across a range of taxa, limited attention so far has been given to the role of spatiotemporal variation in food predictability in shaping individual resource selection. Here, we studied the exploitation of human-provided carrion resources differing in predictability by Canarian Egyptian vultures (Neophron percnopterus majorensis). We focussed specifically on the role of individual characteristics and spatial constraints in shaping patterns of resource use. Using high-resolution GPS data obtained from 45 vultures tracked for 1 year, we show that individual vultures were repeatable in both their monthly use of predictable and semi-predicable resources (feeding station vs. farms) and monthly levels of mobility (home ra

SUBMITTER: van Overveld T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6181911 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature