Sibling competition stabilizes signalling resolution models of parent-offspring conflict

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1436, 1999, Pages 2399-2402

  Rodríguez Gironés, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Begging; Sibling competition; Signalling of need

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PROVISIONING; GAME THEORY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; NESTLING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMPETITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 0033534008     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0937     Document Type: Article

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