Behavioural profile predicts dominance status in mountain chickadees, Poecile gambeli

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1441-1448

  Fox, Rebecca A ^a   Ladage, Lara D ^a   Roth II, Timothy C ^a   Pravosudov, Vladimir V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioural profile; exploration; mountain chickadee; personality; Pocile gambeli; social dominance; temperament

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DOMINANCE; MALE BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; STAND STRUCTURE;

AVES; PARIDAE; PARUS GAMBELI; POECILE GAMBELI;

EID: 67349213988     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.02.022     Document Type: Article

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