Costs of chick provisioning in cooperatively breeding crows: an experimental study

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 349-357

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

carrion crow; chick provisioning; cooperative breeding; Corvus corone corone; costs of care; food supplementation; helping behaviour

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PASSERINE;

CORVIDAE; CORVUS CORONE;

EID: 33846450688     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.04.013     Document Type: Article

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