Repeatability and heritability of exploratory behaviour in great tits from the wild

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 929-938

  Dingemanse, Niels J ^a   Both, Christiaan ^a,b   Drent, Piet J ^a   Van Oers, Kees ^a   Van Noordwijk, Arie J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXPLORATION; HERITABILITY; PASSERINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 0012942747     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.2006     Document Type: Article

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