Contributions to care vary with age, sex, breeding status and group size in the cooperatively breeding apostlebird

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-73

  Woxvold, Iain A ^a   Mulder, Raoul A ^a   Magrath, Michael J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BIRD; BROOD SIZE; GROUP SIZE; INCUBATION; NESTLING; PARENTAL CARE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

AVES; STRUTHIDEA CINEREA;

EID: 33745233309     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.08.016     Document Type: Article

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