How Nestling Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) Integrate their Responses to Hunger and Signalling by Nestmates

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 163-170

  Marques, Paulo A M ^a,b   Leonard, Marty L ^c   Horn, Andrew G ^c   Contasti, Adrienne ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b Museu Nacional de Historia Natural Universidade de Lisboa   (Portugal)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; NESTLING; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; PASSERINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERIFORMES; TACHYCINETA; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR;

EID: 78650837713     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01859.x     Document Type: Article

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