Sex differences in provisioning rules and honest signalling of need in Manx shearwaters, Puffinus puffinus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 613-620

  Quillfeldt, Petra ^a,c   Masello, Juan F ^a   Hamer, Keith C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; BODY CONDITION; FOOD PROVISIONING; SEABIRD; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; PUFFINUS; PUFFINUS AURICULARIS; PUFFINUS PUFFINUS;

EID: 7944238743     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.12.002     Document Type: Article

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