Nestling competition, rather than supernormal stimulus, explains the success of parasitic brown-headed cowbird chicks in yellow warbler nests

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 265, Issue 1392, 1998, Pages 249-254

  Lichtenstein, G ^a   Sealy, S G ^a  

^a Laboratorio Biologia Comportamiento   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Begging; Brood parasitism; Cowbird; Supernormal stimulus

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOUR; BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NESTLING COMPETITION; PARASITIC BIRD; YELLOW WARBLER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; COMPETITION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DENDROICA PETECHIA; MOLOTHRUS ATER;

EID: 0032492135     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1998.0289     Document Type: Article

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