Losing the last feather: Feather loss as an antipredator adaptation in birds

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1046-1056

  Møller, Anders Pape ^a   Nielsen, Jan Tøttrup ^b   Erritzøe, Johannes ^b  

^a Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive CNRS UMR 7103 UFR 927   (France)

^b Taps Old Rectory ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Alternative defense strategies; Antagonistic defenses; Immune defense; Sociality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PASSERINE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TAIL FEATHER;

ACCIPITER NISUS; AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 33749568143     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arl044     Document Type: Article

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