Extended parental care of fledglings: Parent birds adjust anti-predator response according to predator type and distance

Behaviour

Volumn 147, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 853-870

  Colombelli Négrel, Diane ^a   Robertson, Jeremy ^a   Sulloway, Frank J ^b   Kleindorfer, Sonia ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm calls; Birds; Malurus cyaneus; Reproductive investment; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

AVES; MALURUS CYANEUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 77952523049     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579510X495771     Document Type: Article

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