Effects of relatedness on social-foraging tactic use in house sparrows

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 337-342

  Tóth, Zoltán ^a   Bókony, Veronika ^a   Lendvai, Ádám Z ^b   Szabó, Krisztián ^c   Pénzes, Zsolt ^c,d   Liker, András ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^b Department of Agricultural Sciences and Environmental Management   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

genetic relatedness; house sparrow; kin discrimination; Passer domesticus; scrounging

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE POPULATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; KIN RECOGNITION; PASSERINE; RELATEDNESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 58349110759     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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