Looking after your partner: Sentinel behaviour in a socially monogamous bird

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Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mainwaring, Mark C ^a   Griffith, Simon C ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bi parental care; Incubation; Natural selection; Predation; Sentinels; Social monogamy; Taeniopygia guttata; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLIGHT; MALE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; SENTINEL EVENT; SOCIAL MONOGAMY; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 84885135460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.83     Document Type: Article

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