Helping as a signal and the effect of a potential audience during provisioning visits in a cooperative bird

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1319-1330

  McDonald, Paul G ^a,b   te Marvelde, Luc ^c   Kazem, Anahita J N ^d   Wright, Jonathan ^d  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

bell miner; cooperative breeding; Manorina melanophrys; nestling provisioning; pay to stay; signalling hypotheses; social prestige

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; NESTLING; PASSERINE; SIGNALING;

AVES; MANORINA MELANOPHRYS;

EID: 40749102079     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.09.005     Document Type: Article

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