Chick begging as a signal: Are nestlings honest?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 178-182

  Cotton, Peter A ^a   Kacelnik, Alex ^a   Wright, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Zoology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Begging; Parent offspring conflict; Signaling; Starling; Sturnus vulgaris

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOUR; HONEST SIGNAL; SIGNAL; STARLING;

STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 0029752274     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/7.2.178     Document Type: Article

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