Individual differences in the helping behaviors of cooperatively breeding Rufous Vangas

Ornithological Science

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-13

  Eguchi, Kazuhiro ^a   Asai, Shigeki ^b   Yamagishi, Satoshi ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Direct benefit; Helping; Indirect benefit; Relatedness; Rufous Vanga

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902662520     PISSN: 13470558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2326/048.008.0102     Document Type: Article

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