Feeding experience and relative size modify the begging strategies of nestlings

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 782-785

  Rodríguez Gironés, Miguel A ^a,d   Zúñiga, Jesús Martín ^b   Redondo, Tomás ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^d Huerto Albarracín   (Spain)

Author keywords

Begging; Communication; Handicap principle; Hatching asynchrony; Learning; Signaling of need

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; HANDICAP PRINCIPLE; HONEST SIGNALING;

AVES; CLAMATOR; CLAMATOR GLANDARIUS; CORVIDAE; CUCULIDAE; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; PASSER; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PICA; PICA PICA;

EID: 0036862833     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/13.6.782     Document Type: Article

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