Wintering Strategies

Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Volume-Three Set

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages V3-597-V3-605

  Silverin, B ^a   Wingfield, J C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominance; Emergency life history stage; Flocking; Glucocorticosteroids; Herding; Mesotocin; Neurosteroids; Oxytocin; Schooling; Subordinance; Thermoregulation; Thyroid hormones; Vasoactive intestinal peptide; Vasopressin; Vasotocin; Winter territory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955959091     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-045337-8.00251-5     Document Type: Chapter

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