Do hosts of interspecific brood parasites feed parasitic chicks with lower-quality prey?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1761-1763

  Soler, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

arms race; brood parasitism; coevolution; coevolution at the nestling stage; host defence

Indexed keywords

ARMS RACE; BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; NESTLING;

EID: 53649101609     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.07.020     Document Type: Note

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