The effect of male removal on female parental care in the orange-tufted sunbird

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 437-444

  Markman, Shai ^b   Yom Tov, Yoram ^b   Wright, Jonathan ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLUS GALLUS; NECTARINIA BOUVIERI; NECTARINIA OSEA;

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FORAGING EFFORT; NEST GUARDING; NEST PREDATION; ORANGE-TUFTED SUNBIRD; PARENTAL CARE; TERRITORIAL DEFENCE;

EID: 0030471789     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0188     Document Type: Article

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