Who cares? Males provide most parental care in a monogamous nesting cuckoo

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 540-547

  Maurer, Golo ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BROOD PARASITISM; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; NESTING; PARENTAL CARE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANURA; AVES; CENTROPUS PHASIANINUS; CUCULIDAE; HEXAPODA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 43749084340     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01498.x     Document Type: Article

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