Exploration behaviour is not associated with chick provisioning in great tits

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Patrick, Samantha C ^a,b   Browning, Lucy E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; CHICK PROVISIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PARUS MAJOR; PERSONALITY; PLASTICITY; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; NESTING; SONGBIRD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

PARUS MAJOR;

ANIMALS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 80054786131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026383     Document Type: Article

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