Nectar intake of white-bellied sunbirds (cinnyris talatala): Can meal size be inferred from feeding duration?

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 682-687

  Köhler, Angela ^a   Verburgt, Luke ^a   Nicolson, Sue W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SONGBIRD; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME; VISCOSITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; SEX FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; SUCROSE; TIME FACTORS; VISCOSITY;

AVES; NECTARINIA;

EID: 48249106976     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588174     Document Type: Note

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