Barn owls do not interrupt their siblings

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 119-126

  Dreiss, Amélie N ^a   Ruppli, Charlène A ^a   Oberli, Fréderic ^a   Antoniazza, Sylvain ^a   Henry, Isabelle ^a   Roulin, Alexandre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Animal communication; Barn owl; Overlap; Sibling negotiation; Signal interference; Tyto alba

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIOACOUSTICS; CONSPECIFIC; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NESTLING; RAPTOR; SIBLING;

ANIMALIA; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE;

EID: 84880153630     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.04.019     Document Type: Article

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