Singing for your supper: Sentinel calling by kleptoparasites can mitigate the cost to victims

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 900-906

  Radford, Andrew N ^a   Bell, Matthew B V ^b   Hollén, Linda I ^a   Ridley, Amanda R ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Foraging success; Interspecific interaction; Mutualism; Parasitism; Vigilance; Vocal communication

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; KLEPTOPARASITISM; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MUTUALISM; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; VIGILANCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; PASSERIFORMES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; DICRURUS ADSIMILIS; TIMALIIDAE; TURDOIDES BICOLOR;

EID: 79952054770     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01180.x     Document Type: Article

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