The adaptive benefit of hatching asynchrony in wild zebra finches

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 479-484

  Gilby, Amanda J ^a   Mainwaring, Mark C ^b   Griffith, Simon C ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Begging behaviour; Hatching asynchrony; Parent offspring conflict; Sibling competition; Sibling rivalry hypothesis; Taeniopygia guttata; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BEGGING BEHAVIOR; BROOD DESERTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; INCUBATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NESTLING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PASSERINE; SONGBIRD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WILD POPULATION;

TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 80051671072     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.05.022     Document Type: Article

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