Fecal-Sac ingestion by spotted towhees

Condor

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 503-510

  McKay, Jenny E ^a,b   Murphy, Michael T ^a   Smith, Sarah Bartos ^a,c   Richardson, Jennifer K ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Watershed Sciences Inc   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coprophagy; Economic disposal hypothesis; Fecal sacs; Nest sanitation; Parental behavior; Parental nutrition hypothesis; Pipilo maculatus; Spotted Towhee

Indexed keywords

PIPILO; PIPILO MACULATUS;

EID: 70349538638     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2009.080065     Document Type: Article

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