Good neighbour, bad neighbour: song sparrows retaliate against aggressive rivals

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 97-102

  Akçay, Çaǧlar ^a   Wood, William E ^a   Searcy, William A ^b   Templeton, Christopher N ^a   Campbell, S Elizabeth ^a   Beecher, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Miami   (United States)

Author keywords

birdsong; Dear Enemy effect; extrapair copulation; Melodia melospiza; Prisoner's Dilemma; song sparrow; territory defence; Tit for Tat

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; RESOURCE USE; SONGBIRD; TIT-FOR-TAT;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MELOSPIZA;

EID: 67349263679     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.03.023     Document Type: Article

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