Male barn swallows use different resource allocation rules to produce ornamental tail feathers

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 404-409

  Muñoz, Alberto ^a   Aparicio, José Miguel ^b   Bonal, Raúl ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barn swallow; Honesty; Resource allocation; Sexual ornaments; Tail feathers; Trade off

Indexed keywords

HONEST SIGNALING; MOLT; ORNAMENTATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE USE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TAIL FEATHER;

AVES; HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA;

EID: 52449121212     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm148     Document Type: Article

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