Feeding nestlings does not function as a signal of social prestige incooperatively breeding chestnut-crowned babblers

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 277-289

  Nomano, Fumiaki Y ^a   Browning, Lucy E ^b,c   Rollins, Lee A ^d,g   Nakagawa, Shinichi ^e   Griffith, Simon C ^d   Russell, Andrew F ^f  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Audience effect; Chestnut crowned babbler; Delayed benefit; Direct benefit; Image scoring; Indirect reciprocity; Pomatostomus ruficeps

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); MALE BEHAVIOR; NESTLING; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; SIGNALING;

ANIMALIA; POMATOSTOMUS RUFICEPS;

EID: 84880710921     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.05.015     Document Type: Article

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