Vocal sib-sib interactions: how siblings adjust signalling level to each other

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 717-725

  Roulin, Alexandre ^a   Dreiss, Amelie ^a   Fioravanti, Celine ^a   Bize, Pierre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

barn owl; begging; communication; parent offspring conflict; sibling negotiation; signalling; Tyto alba; vocalization

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD PROVISIONING; GAME THEORY; HONEST SIGNALING; HUNGER; NESTLING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; RAPTOR; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SIBLING; VOCALIZATION;

STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE;

EID: 59849090355     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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