Scramble feeding in jackass penguins: Within-brood food distribution and the maintenance of sibling asymmetries

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1383-1390

  Van Heezik, Yolanda M ^a   Seddon, Philip J ^b  

^a National Wildlife Research Center   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOUR; FOOD DISTRIBUTION; SCRAMBLE FEEDING; SIBLING ASYMMETRIES;

SPHENISCUS DEMERSUS;

EID: 0030153554     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0141     Document Type: Article

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