Parental response to elevated begging in a high predation, tropical environment

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1239-1245

  Tarwater, Corey E ^a   Kelley, J Patrick ^b   Brawn, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

begging; nest predation; parent offspring conflict; parental care; Thamnophilus atrinucha; tropics; western slaty antshrike

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; BEGGING BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FOOD PROVISIONING; HUNGER; NEST PREDATION; NESTLING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PASSERINE; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SONG; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; THAMNOPHILUS ATRINUCHA;

EID: 70350063839     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.07.040     Document Type: Article

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