Parental food provisioning is unrelated to manipulated offspring food demand in a nocturnal single-provisioning alcid, the Rhinoceros Auklet

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 486-490

  Takahashi, Akinori ^a,b   Kuroki, Maki ^b,c   Niizuma, Yasuaki ^a   Watanuki, Yutaka ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PROVISIONING; GROWTH; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION;

ALCIDAE; CERORHINCA MONOCERATA; CERORHINCHA; CERORHINCHA MONOCERATA; CHARADRIIFORMES; FRATERCULA ARCTICA; GALLUS GALLUS; PROCELLARIIFORMES; RHINOCEROS;

EID: 0033406063     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3677021     Document Type: Article

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