Big brother is watching you: Eavesdropping to resolve family conflicts

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 717-722

  Dreiss, Amélie N ^a,b   Ruppli, Charlène A ^a,b   Faller, Christof ^b   Roulin, Alexandre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

acoustic; communication; competition; memory; negotiation; sibling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DOMINANCE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; NESTLING; RAPTOR; SIGNALING; SOCIAL CONFLICT; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE;

EID: 84875981469     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ars210     Document Type: Article

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