Do females trade copulations for food? An experimental study on kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla)

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 345-353

  Kempenaers, Bart ^a   Lanctot, Richard B ^b,c   Gill, Verena A ^b,c   Hatch, Scott A ^b   Valcu, Mihai ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Begging; Courtship feeding; Frequent copulation; Material benefit hypothesis; Mating effort; Sexual conflict

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; COURTSHIP; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FOOD; FOOD LIMITATION; SEABIRD; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL SELECTION;

AVES; LARUS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA;

EID: 33847633511     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arl090     Document Type: Article

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