Variance-sensitive green woodhoopoes: A new explanation for sex differences in foraging?

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 941-950

  Wright, Jonathan ^a   Radford, Andrew N ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BIRD; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NICHE PARTITIONING; PREY SIZE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

AVES; PHOENICULUS PURPUREUS;

EID: 77956462080     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01811.x     Document Type: Article

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