Experiments and observations of prothonotary warblers indicate a lack of adaptive responses to brood parasitism

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 935-944

  Hoover, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; BROOD DESERTION; BROOD PARASITISM; PASSERINE;

MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER; PROTONOTARIA; PROTONOTARIA CITREA;

EID: 0038413822     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2154     Document Type: Article

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