Experimentally increased food resources in the natal territory promote offspring philopatry and helping in cooperatively breeding carrion crows

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1593, 2006, Pages 1529-1535

  Baglione, Vittorio ^a   Canestrari, Daniela ^b   Marcos, José M ^c   Ekman, Jan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carrion crow; Cooperative breeding; Philopatry; Territory quality; Wealth

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; NATAL DISPERSAL; PASSERINE; TERRITORY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROW; FEMALE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHILOPATRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; TERRITORIALITY; ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR; COOPERATION; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

AVES; CORVIDAE; CORVUS CORONE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BREEDING; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CROWS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD; HOMING BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33746192313     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3481     Document Type: Article

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