Conflict over parental care in house sparrows: Do females use a negotiation rule?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 651-656

  Lendvai, Ádám Z ^a,b   Barta, Zoltán ^c   Chastel, Olivier ^b  

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

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Biparental care; Handicapping; Mate removal; Passer domesticus; Sexual conflict

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HANDICAP PRINCIPLE; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE; SEXUAL CONFLICT;

PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 66149131137     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp047     Document Type: Article

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