Adaptive management of body mass by Siberian jays

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 427-434

  Ratikainen, Irja Ida ^a   Wright, Jonathan ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Body mass; Caching; Environmental unpredictability; Perisoreus infaustus; Rule of thumb; Siberian jay; Winter fattening

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY MASS; DOMINANCE; FAT; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; PREDATION; STARVATION; WINTER;

AVES; CORVIDA; CORVIDAE; PERISOREUS INFAUSTUS;

EID: 84873098026     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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