Extreme gender-based post-fledging brood division in the toc-toc

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 730-735

  Vega, Luciana B ^a,b   Holloway, Graham J ^a   Millett, James E ^b   Richardson, David S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURE SEYCHELLES   (Seychelles)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brood division; Gender; Offspring sex; Parental care; Provisioning behavior

Indexed keywords

FLEDGING; FOOD PROVISIONING; PARENTAL CARE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PASSERINE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

AVES; FOUDIA SECHELLARUM;

EID: 34547653867     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm038     Document Type: Article

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