Experimentally reduced male attractiveness increases parental care in the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 171-176

  Sanz, J J ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attractiveness; Ficedula hypoleuca; Parental care; Pied flycatcher; Secondary sexual trait

Indexed keywords

FOOD PROVISIONING; PATERNAL CARE; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS;

FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA;

EID: 0035096085     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/12.2.171     Document Type: Article

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