Unrealistically high costs of rejecting artificial model eggs in cuckoo Cuculus canorus hosts

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 295-301

  Martín Vivaldi, Manuel ^a,b   Soler, Manuel ^a   Møller, Anders Pape ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG REJECTION; MODEL; PASSERINE; RECOGNITION;

AVES; CUCULUS CANORUS; PASSER; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0036746182     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-048X.2002.330311.x     Document Type: Article

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