Parental care in wild and captive zebra finches: Measuring food delivery to quantify parental effort

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 289-295

  Gilby, Amanda J ^a   Mainwaring, Mark C ^b   Rollins, Lee Ann ^a   Griffith, Simon C ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Domestication; Intrafamilial conflict; Offspring provisioning; Regurgitation rate; Taeniopygia guttata; Wild free living; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE POPULATION; DOMESTICATION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; NEST BOX; NESTLING; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE; WILD POPULATION;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 78650193700     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.10.020     Document Type: Article

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