Male red-winged blackbirds distrust unreliable and sexually attractive neighbours

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1543, 2004, Pages 1033-1038

  Olendorf, Robert ^a,b   Getty, Thomas ^a   Scribner, Kim ^a   Robinson, Scott K ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Dear enemy relationship; Reciprocity; Red winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus); Territoriality

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; DEAR ENEMY PHENOMENON; PASSERINE; TERRITORIALITY; VIGILANCE;

AGGRESSION; ALERTNESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; COOPERATION; COPULATION; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY;

AGELAIUS; AGELAIUS PHOENICEUS; ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 2442653770     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2687     Document Type: Article

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