Begging and digestive responses to differences in long-term and short-term need in nestling pied flycatchers

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 517-525

  Wright, Jonathan ^a,d   Karasov, William H ^b,d   Kazem, Anahita J N ^a,d   Gonçalves, Inês Braga ^c,d   McSwan, Emma ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assimilable mass coefficient; Digestive transit time; Feeding rate; Ficedula hypoleuca; Large versus small chicks; Load size; Nutritional need; Offspring solicitation; Pied flycatcher

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BROOD SIZE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NESTLING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SIGNAL;

FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA;

EID: 77955578992     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.06.015     Document Type: Article

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