Female canaries invest more in response to an exaggerated male trait

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 679-684

  Garcia Fernandez, V ^a   Draganoiu, T I ^a   Ung, D ^a   Lacroix, A ^b   Malacarne, G ^c   Leboucher, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^b CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

^c UNIPMN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Domestic canary; Egg; Maternal investment; Serinus canaria; Supranormal stimulus

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; EGG; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL EFFECT; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; SERINUS CANARIA;

EID: 84875246838     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.01.007     Document Type: Article

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