Prefledging mass recession in Manx shearwaters: Parental desertion or nestling anorexia?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 705-709

  Gray, Catherine M ^a   Hamer, Keith C ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; FLEDGING; FOOD PROVISIONING; PARENTAL CARE;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; PUFFINUS AURICULARIS; PUFFINUS PUFFINUS;

EID: 0035179509     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2001.1813     Document Type: Article

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