Dominant nestlings displaying female-like melanin coloration behave altruistically in the barn owl

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1229-1236

  Roulin, Alexandre ^a   Da Silva, Arnaud ^b   Ruppli, Charlène A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Altruism; Barn owl; Cooperation; Egoism; Food sharing; Food stealing; Melanin; Selfish; Sibling competition; Tyto alba

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; COLOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; HERITABILITY; KIN SELECTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MELANIN; NESTLING; PATERNITY; PLUMAGE; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SIBLING;

ANIMALIA; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE;

EID: 84867724470     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.08.033     Document Type: Article

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