Reciprocal cooperation in avian mobbing: playing nice pays

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 416-419

  Wheatcroft, David J ^a   Price, Trevor D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BIRD; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; MOBBING; PLAY; RECOGNITION;

ANIMAL; COOPERATION; CROWDING; EVOLUTION; PREDATION; RECOGNITION; SHORT SURVEY; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; MASS BEHAVIOR; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SONGBIRDS;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 47049099551     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2008.04.011     Document Type: Short Survey

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