Females are responsible for ejection of cuckoo eggs in the rufous bush robin

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 131-136

  Palomino, José Javier ^a   Martín Vivaldi, Manuel ^b   Soler, Manuel ^b   Soler, Juan José ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG EJECTION; FEMALE BEHAVIOUR; PARASITISM; PASSERINE;

CERCOTRICHAS GALACTOTES;

EID: 0032128418     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0771     Document Type: Article

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