Experience attracts: The role of age in the formation of cooperative brood-rearing coalitions in eiders

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1289-1294

  Jaatinen, Kim ^a   Öst, Markus ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Age; Body condition; Breeding experience; Cooperation; Eider; Group formation; Group size; Market theory; Partner choice; Somateria mollissima

Indexed keywords

AGE; BODY CONDITION; BROOD REARING; CONSPECIFIC; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; GROUP SIZE; MATE CHOICE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; WATERFOWL;

SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 79957696823     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.03.020     Document Type: Article

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