Food stealing in birds: brain or brawn?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1725-1734

  Morand Ferron, Julie ^a   Sol, Daniel ^b   Lefebvre, Louis ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

behavioural flexibility; cognition; contest competition; ecological interactions; kleptoparasitism

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BODY MASS; BRAIN; COGNITION; COMMON ANCESTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; EVOLUTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; KLEPTOPARASITISM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 36749021225     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.04.031     Document Type: Article

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