Juvenile female aggression in cooperatively breeding pied babblers: causes and contexts

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 452-458

  Raihani, Nichola J ^a   Ridley, Amanda R ^b   Browning, Lucy E ^a   Nelson Flower, Martha J ^b   Knowles, Sarah ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DISPERSAL; JUVENILE; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

TIMALIIDAE; TURDOIDES BICOLOR;

EID: 41949124920     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01482.x     Document Type: Article

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