Chick loss from mixed broods reflects severe nestmate competition between an evictor brood parasite and its hosts

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 311-314

  Moskát, Csaba ^a   Hauber, Márk E ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Evictor; Obligate brood parasite; Tolerant; Virulence

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; NEST PREDATION; NESTLING; OBLIGATE BEHAVIOR; VIRULENCE;

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BROOD PARASITE; CHICK; COMPETITION; CUCULUS CANORUS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOSTER CARE; HATCHLING; NESTLING; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRDS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS; TIME FACTORS;

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; CUCULUS CANORUS;

EID: 77649185947     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.01.015     Document Type: Article

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