Helping has signalling characteristics in a cooperatively breeding bird

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 739-747

  Doutrelant, Claire ^a,b   Covas, Rita ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

audience; communication network; cooperative breeding; Philetairus socius; signal; sociable weaver

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION NETWORK; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EUSOCIALITY; FITNESS; SIGNALING;

AVES; PHILETAIRUS SOCIUS; PHILETARIUS SOCIUS;

EID: 35148821376     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.11.033     Document Type: Article

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