You mob my owl, I'll mob yours: Birds play tit-for-tat game

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Krama, Tatjana ^a   Vrublevska, Jolanta ^a   Freeberg, Todd M ^b   Kullberg, Cecilia ^c   Rantala, Markus J ^d   Krams, Indrikis ^e  

^a DAUGAVPILS UNIVERSITY   (Latvia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

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EID: 84869196667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00800     Document Type: Article

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