Effects of feeding frequency on nestling begging and digestion

Ibis

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 234-241

  Budden, Amber E ^a,b   Wright, Jonathan ^a,c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Begging behaviour; Digestive efficiency; Long term need; Parent offspring conflict; Short term need

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; DIGESTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; NESTLING; PASSERINE; PROTEIN;

AVES; LANIIDAE; LANIUS MERIDIONALIS;

EID: 41149176858     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00769.x     Document Type: Article

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