Competition with a host nestling for parental provisioning imposes recoverable costs on parasitic cuckoo chick's growth

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 378-383

  Geltsch, Nikoletta ^a   Hauber, Márk E ^b   Anderson, Michael G ^c   Bán, Miklós ^d   Moskát, Csaba ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^e EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Chick competition; Parental care; Supernormal stimulus

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; COMPENSATION; GROWTH RATE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; NESTLING; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BROOD PARASITE; BROOD PARASITISM; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCULUS CANORUS; GROWTH; NEST PREDATION; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR;

AGING; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIRDS; EGGS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROWTH; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PARASITES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; WEIGHT GAIN;

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS;

EID: 84861970866     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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