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Article: Fan-tailed Warbler Foraging with Nine-banded Armadillos. (Short Communications).(Author Abstract)
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- Wilson Bulletin
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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Commensal foraging strategies have evolved in numerous species of birds (Willis and Oniki 1978, Dean and MacDonald 1981, Roberts et al. 2000). Birds forage on prey flushed by a wide variety of animals, including ants (Willis and Oniki 1978, Roberts et al. 2000), other birds (Baker 1980, Robbins 1981), maned wolves (Chrysocyon brachyurus; Silveira et al. 1997), primates (Stott 1947, Boinski and Scott 1988), cetaceans (Evans 1987), ungulates (Heatwole 1965, Dean and MacDonald 1981, Kallander 1993), and humans (Skutch 1969).
Armadillos (Mammalia: Dasipodidae) disturb invertebrates by digging in and overturning leaf litter. However, we found only one report of a bird ...