Kin discrimination in cooperatively breeding long-tailed tits

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1470, 2001, Pages 885-890

  Hatchwell, B J ^a   Ross, D J ^a   Fowlie, M K ^a,b   McGowan, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Kin discrimination; Kin recognition; Long tailed tit

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; KIN RECOGNITION; PASSERINE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BIRD; BREEDING; COOPERATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0035820930     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1598     Document Type: Article

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