Individual benefits of nestling begging: Experimental evidence for an immediate effect, but no evidence for a delayed effect

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 336-338

  Lessells, C M ^a   Riebel, Katharina ^b   Draganoiu, Tudor Ion ^b,c  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS NANTERRE   (France)

Author keywords

Begging; Benefits; Costs; Great tits; Honest signalling; Playback

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; BIOACOUSTICS; BROOD REARING; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD PROVISIONING; HONEST SIGNALING; NESTLING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING; NEWBORN; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS;

PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 80051676335     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0870     Document Type: Article

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