Personalities in great tits, Parus major: Stability and consistency

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 795-805

  Carere, Claudio ^a,c   Drent, Piet J ^b   Privitera, Lucia ^a   Koolhaas, Jaap M ^a   Groothuis, Ton G G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; JUVENILE; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; PASSERINE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

AVES; PARUS MAJOR; RODENTIA;

EID: 26244441939     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.01.003     Document Type: Article

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