Reproductive skew and individual strategies: Infanticide or cooperation?

Acta Ethologica

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 92-102

  Macedo, Regina H F ^a   Quinn, James S ^b   Lima, Marcos R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communal breeding; Cooperation; Guira cuckoo; Guira guira; Infanticide; Ovicide; Reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

AVES; GUIRA GUIRA;

EID: 28844467236     PISSN: 08739749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10211-005-0005-z     Document Type: Article

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