Interspecific reciprocity explains mobbing behaviour of the breeding chaffinches, Fringilla coelebs

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1507, 2002, Pages 2345-2350

  Krams, Indrikis ^a   Krama, Tatjana ^b  

^a DAUGAVPILS UNIVERSITY   (Latvia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Anti predator behaviour; Chaffinch; Fringilla coelebs; Interspecific reciprocity; Mobbing

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; RECIPROCITY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRINGILLA COELEBS; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; FRINGILLA; FRINGILLA COELEBS;

EID: 53149137035     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2155     Document Type: Article

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