Contrafreeloading in starlings: Testing the information hypothesis

Behaviour

Volumn 136, Issue 10-11, 1999, Pages 1267-1282

  Bean, D ^a   Mason, G J ^b   Bateson, M ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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EID: 0033261061     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853999500712     Document Type: Article

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