The wages of violence: Mobbing by mockingbirds as a frontline defence against brood-parasitic cowbirds

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1023-1029

  Gloag, Ros ^a   Fiorini, Vanina D ^b   Reboreda, Juan C ^b   Kacelnik, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Chalk browed mockingbird; Egg puncture; Frontline defence; Host parasite coevolution; Mimus saturninus; Molothrus bonariensis; Nest defence; Shiny cowbird

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; COEVOLUTION; HEMOPARASITE; MOBBING; NATURAL SELECTION; NEST GUARDING; PASSERINE;

AVES; MIMUS SATURNINUS; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS BONARIENSIS;

EID: 84886289307     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.09.007     Document Type: Article

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