Subordinates benefit from exploratory dominants: Response to novel food in cooperatively breeding carrion crows

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 103-109

  Chiarati, Elisa ^a   Canestrari, Daniela ^a   Vera, Rubén ^a   Baglione, Vittorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carrion crow; Cooperative breeding; Corvus corone; Delayed dispersal; Neophobia; Parental facilitation

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; CARRION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; KIN RECOGNITION; NATAL DISPERSAL; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; SURVIVAL; TERRITORY;

CORVIDAE; CORVUS CORONE;

EID: 83555176119     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.10.012     Document Type: Article

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