Alloparenting in the rare Sichuan Jay (Perisoreus internigrans)

Condor

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 662-667

  Jing, Yu ^a   Fang, Yun ^b   Strickland, Dan ^a   Lu, Nan ^a   Sun, Yue Hua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allofeeding; Breeding biology; Cooperative breeding; Feeding rate; Helping behavior; Perisoreus internigrans; Sichuan Jay

Indexed keywords

ABIES; CONIFEROPHYTA; PERISOREUS; PERISOREUS CANADENSIS; PERISOREUS INFAUSTUS; PERISOREUS INTERNIGRANS; PICEA;

EID: 77249090331     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2009.080114     Document Type: Article

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