Cooperation and competition: nepotistic tolerance and intrasexual aggression in western bluebird winter groups

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 867-872

  Dickinson, Janis L ^a   Euaparadorn, Melody ^b   Greenwald, Katherine ^c   Mitra, Chandreyee ^d   Shizuka, Daizaburo ^e  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cooperative breeding; group living; nepotism; sexual competition; Sialia mexicana; western bluebird; winter flock

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BREEDING POPULATION; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; NEPOTISM; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD;

SIALIA MEXICANA; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 62149101931     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.11.026     Document Type: Article

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