Whom do the sparrows follow? The effect of kinship on social preference in house sparrow flocks

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 173-177

  Tóth, Zoltán ^a   Bókony, Veronika ^a   Lendvai, Ádám Z ^b   Szabó, Krisztián ^c   Pénzes, Zsolt ^c,d   Liker, András ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

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

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Genetic relatedness; Kin discrimination; Passer domesticus; Social preference

Indexed keywords

KINSHIP; NESTLING; PASSERINE; RELATEDNESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FITNESS; FLEDGLING; GENETICS; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SIBLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPARROW;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); NESTING BEHAVIOR; SIBLINGS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPARROWS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 68549130460     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.06.003     Document Type: Article

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