Chick begging strategies in relation to brood hierarchies and hatching asynchrony

American Naturalist

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 412-420

  Cotton, Peter A ^a   Wright, Jonathan ^b   Kacelnik, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolutionarily stable strategy; Hatching asynchrony; Parent offspring conflict; Signaling

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BEGGING BEHAVIOR; HATCHING;

EID: 0032897108     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303178     Document Type: Article

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