Wild number sense in brood parasitic Brown-headed Cowbirds

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Volumn 151, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 775-777

  Low, Jason ^a   Burns, Kevin C ^a   Hauber, Mark E ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; BODY MASS; BROOD PARASITISM; CLUTCH SIZE; INCUBATION; NEST SITE; SPATIAL COGNITION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

MOLOTHRUS ATER;

EID: 70349416711     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2009.00951.x     Document Type: Review

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