The cost of teaching embryos in superb fairy-wrens

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1131-1135

  Kleindorfer, Sonia ^a   Hoi, Herbert ^b   Evans, Christine ^a   Mahr, Katharina ^b   Robertson, Jeremy ^a   Hauber, Mark E ^c,d   Colombelli Négrel, Diane ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

embryonic learning; Malurus cyaneus; teaching

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; EMBRYO; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NEST PREDATION; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE; TEACHING;

MALURUS CYANEUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 84908310264     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/aru097     Document Type: Article

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