Post-hatching parental care behaviour and hormonal status in a precocial bird

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 206-214

  Boos, Mathieu ^a,b   Zimmer, Cédric ^a   Carriere, Aurélie ^a   Robin, Jean Patrice ^a   Petit, Odile ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SUBATOMIQUES   (France)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Anatidae; Hen brood bond; Post hatching period; Prolactin

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; FLEDGING; HATCHING; HORMONE; PARENTAL CARE; WATERFOWL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; DUCKLING; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HATCHING; HEN; LEADERSHIP; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CORTICOSTERONE; DUCKS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROOMING; HORMONES; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOLTING; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PROLACTIN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SLEEP; SWIMMING; TESTOSTERONE;

ANAS; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; ANATIDAE; AVES;

EID: 35348874749     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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