Conditional strategies in territorial defense: Do Carolina wrens play tit-for-tat?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 664-669

  Hyman, Jeremy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Cooperation; Territoriality; Thryothorus ludovicianus; Tit for tat; Wrens

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALIA; PASSERIFORMES; THRYOTHORUS; THRYOTHORUS LUDOVICIANUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 0036747478     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/13.5.664     Document Type: Article

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