Bargaining babblers: Vocal negotiation of cooperative behaviour in a social bird

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1698, 2010, Pages 3223-3228

  Bell, M B V ^a   Radford, A N ^b   Smith, R A ^a   Thompson, A M ^c   Ridley, A R ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contributions to cooperation; Evolution of communication; Negotiation; Sentinel behaviour

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; PASSERINE;

AVES; TIMALIIDAE; TURDOIDES BICOLOR;

EID: 77958126196     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0643     Document Type: Article

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