Anting in Afrotropical birds: a review

Title: Anting in Afrotropical birds: a review
Creator: Craig, Adrian J F K
Subject: To be catalogued
Date: 1999
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/447746
Identifier: vital:74671
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1080/00306525.1999.9634237
Description: Passive anting has been recorded from four non-passerine species in Africa, the Rock Kestrel Falco tinnunculus, the African Finfoot Podica senegalensis, the African Hoopoe Upupa epops and the Whitebacked Mousebird Colius colius. Active or passive anting has been recorded from 21 passerine species in 10 families in the wild, and in captive birds in a further 27 species of 3 families. Although such behaviour may have been overlooked or misinterpreted, the rarity of observations implies that in most species anting is likely to be infrequent. In all cases in which the ants have been identified, they were members of the sub-family Formicinae. It appears unlikely that any single functional explanation can account for the observed occurrences of this behaviour.
Format: 5 pages, pdf
Language: English
Relation: Ostrich, Craig, A.J.F.K., 1999. Anting in Afrotropical birds: a review. Ostrich, 70(3-4), pp.203-207, Ostrich volume 70 number 3-4 203 207 1999 1727-947X
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