Biparental care and offspring begging strategies: hungry nestling blue tits move towards the father

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 167-174

  Dickens, M ^a   Berridge, D ^a   Hartley, I R ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

begging; biparental care; blue tit; Cyanistes caeruleus; parent offspring conflict; sibling competition; sibling conflict

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); NESTLING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SIBLING;

AVES; CYANISTES CAERULEUS;

EID: 37349036862     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.04.024     Document Type: Article

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