Aggressiveness, Boldness and Parental Food Provisioning in Male House Wrens (Troglodytes aedon)

Ethology

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 984-993

  Barnett, Craig A ^a,b   Thompson, Charles F ^a   Sakaluk, Scott K ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FOOD PROVISIONING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MALE BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL CARE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SONGBIRD; TRADE-OFF;

TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES AEDON;

EID: 84866003230     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2012.02092.x     Document Type: Article

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