Armed Rollers: Does Nestling's Vomit Function as a Defence against Predators?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Parejo, Deseada ^a   Avilés, Jesús M ^a   Peña, Aránzazu ^b   Sánchez, Lourdes ^c   Ruano, Francisca ^d   Zamora Muñoz, Carmen ^d   Martín Vivaldi, Manuel ^d  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUMARIC ACID; HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CAELIFERA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CORACIAS GARRULUS; DOG; FOOD INTAKE; HERBIVORE; HERBIVORY; MEAT; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; THREAT; VERTEBRATE; VOMITING;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DIET; DOGS; ESCAPE REACTION; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; LARYNGOPHARYNGEAL REFLUX; VOMITING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CORACIAS GARRULUS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84880011463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068862     Document Type: Article

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