Parent-offspring conflict and the coordination of siblings in gulls

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2004, Pages

  Mathevon, N ^a   Charrier, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal communication; Begging behaviour; Black headed gull; Parent offspring conflict

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; BROOD SIZE; FOOD PROVISIONING; HONEST SIGNALING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL CARE; SEABIRD; SYNCHRONY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; LARUS RIDIBUNDUS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARENT; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SIBLING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; LARUS; LARUS RIDIBUNDUS;

EID: 2342473280     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0117     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Budden, A. E. & Wright, J. 2001 Begging in nestling birds. In Current ornithology, vol. 16 (ed. V. Nolan Jr & C. F. Thompson), pp. 83-118. New York: Kluwer/Plenum.
2. Charrier, I., Mathevon, N., Jouventin, P. & Aubin, T. 2001a Acoustic communication in a black-headed gull colony: how chicks identify their parents? Ethology 107, 961-974.
3. Charrier, I., Mathevon, N. & Jouventin, P. 2001b Mother's voice recognition by seal pups. Nature 412, 873.
4. Cramp, S. & Simmons, K. E. L. (eds) 1983 Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. New York: Oxford University Press.
5. Faul, F. & Erdfelder, E. 1992 GPOWER: a priori, post-hoc, and compromise power analyses for MS-DOS (computer program). Bonn, Germany: Department of Psychology, Bonn University.
6. Fjeldsa, J. 1978 The black-headed gull. Copenhagen: av-media.
7. Johnstone, R. A. 1999 Signaling of need, sibling competition, and the cost of honesty. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 96, 12 644-12 649.
8. Kedar, H., Rodriguez-Girones, M. A., Yedvab, S., Winkler, D. W. & Lotem, A. 2000 Experimental evidence for offspring learning in parent-offspring communication. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 267, 1723-1727. (DOI 10.1098/rspb.2000. 1201.)
9. Kilner, R. & Johnstone, R. A. 1997 Begging the question: are offspring solicitation behaviours signals of need? Trends Ecol. Evol. 12, 11-15.
10. Leonard, M. L., Horn, A. G., Gozna, A. & Ramen, S. 2000 Brood size and begging intensity in nestling birds. Behav. Ecol. 11, 196-201.
11. Mathevon, N., Charrier, I. & Jouventin, P. 2003 Potential for individual recognition in acoustic signals: a comparative study of two gulls with different nesting patterns. C. R. Biologies 326, 329-337.
12. Rodriguez-Girones, M. A. 1999 Sibling competition stabilises signalling resolution models of parent-offspring conflict. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 266, 2399-2402. (DOI 10.1098/rspb.1999.0937.)
13. Rodriguez-Girones, M. A., Enquist, M. & Lachmann, M. 2001 Role of begging and sibling competition in foraging strategies of nestlings. Anim. Behav. 61, 733-745.
14. Royle, N. J., Hartley, I. R. & Parker, G. A. 2002 Begging for control: when are offspring solicitation behaviours honest? Trends Ecol. Evol. 17, 434-440.
15. Wright, J. & Leonard, M. L. (eds) 2002 The evolution of begging: competition, cooperation and communication. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer.