Nestling cuckoos, Cuculus canorus, exploit hosts with begging calls that mimic a brood

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 265, Issue 1397, 1998, Pages 673-678

  Davies, N B ^a   Kilner, R M ^a   Noble, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Begging calls; Brood parasitism; Cuckoo; Mimicry of calls; Reed warbler

Indexed keywords

BEGGING CALL; CUCKOO; MIMICRY; NESTLING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; EGG; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOCALIZATION;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; ANIMALIA; AVES; CUCULIDAE; CUCULIFORMES; CUCULUS CANORUS; PHRAGMITES; TURDUS MERULA; TURDUS PHILOMELOS;

EID: 0032557164     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1998.0346     Document Type: Article

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