Wild Carib grackles play a producer-scrounger game

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 916-921

  Morand Ferron, Julie ^a,b   Giraldeau, Luc Alain ^b   Lefebvre, Louis ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carib grackles (Quiscalus lugubris); Field experiments; Kleptoparasitism; Producer scrounger games; Social foraging theory

Indexed keywords

FOOD PRODUCTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GAME THEORY; KLEPTOPARASITISM; SONGBIRD; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; QUISCALUS; QUISCALUS LUGUBRIS;

EID: 34548425535     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm058     Document Type: Article

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