Variable postfledging care in a cooperative bird: Causes and consequences

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 994-1000

  Ridley, Amanda R ^a,b   Raihani, Nichola J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Dispersal success; Pied babblers; Postfledging care; Turdoides bicolor

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DISPERSAL; FITNESS; FLEDGING; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE; SURVIVAL;

AVES; TIMALIIDAE; TURDOIDES BICOLOR;

EID: 35848940960     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm074     Document Type: Article

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