Shared parental care is costly for nestlings of common cuckoos and their great reed warbler hosts

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 79-86

  Hauber, Márk E ^a   Moskát, Csaba ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Chick discrimination; Eviction behavior; Nestling competition; Parental provisioning; Virulence

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FOOD AVAILABILITY; GROWTH RATE; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE; VIRULENCE;

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; AVES; CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS;

EID: 38149032935     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm108     Document Type: Article

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