Coots use hatch order to learn to recognize and reject conspecific brood parasitic chicks

Nature

Volumn 463, Issue 7278, 2010, Pages 223-226

  Shizuka, Daizaburo ^a   Lyon, Bruce E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; CONSPECIFIC; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; HATCHING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LEARNING; RECOGNITION; WATERFOWL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; BROOD PARASITE; EGG; FULICA AMERICANA; HATCHING; NEST SUCCESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RECOGNITION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC FITNESS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVUM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; WETLANDS;

AVES; FULICA AMERICANA; RALLIDAE;

EID: 74449085819     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08655     Document Type: Article

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