Strategic Variation in Mobbing as a Front Line of Defense against Brood Parasitism

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 235-240

  Welbergen, Justin A ^a   Davies, Nicholas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ENGLAND; EVOLUTION; LOGISTIC MODELS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; AVES; CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS;

EID: 59349121366     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.12.041     Document Type: Article

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