Producers, scroungers and the price of a free meal

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 737-744

  Ranta, Esa ^a,c   Peuhkuri, Nina ^a   Hirvonen, Heikki ^a   Barnard, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Division of Population Biology   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; SCROUNGING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR;

EID: 0031942173     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0649     Document Type: Article

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