Flexible helping behaviour in the azure-winged Magpie

Ethology

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 545-558

  Valencia, Juliana ^a   De La Cruz, Carlos ^a   González, Beatriz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; PASSERINE; REARING;

AVES; CORVIDAE; CYANOPICA CYANUS; CYANUS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0041767390     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2003.00896.x     Document Type: Article

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