Social transmission of a host defense against cuckoo parasitism

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5932, 2009, Pages 1318-1320

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARMS RACE; BIRD; COEVOLUTION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; HOST; LEARNING; PARASITISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; BROOD PARASITE; BROOD PARASITISM; CROWDING; FEMALE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HOST RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARROT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL LEARNING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; LEARNING; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PARROTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS; TERRITORIALITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 66849099722     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1172227     Document Type: Article

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