Chickadees with bigger brains have smaller digestive tracts: A multipopulation comparison

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 172-180

  Kozlovsky, Dovid Y ^a   Brown, Shelby L ^a   Branch, Carrie L ^a   Roth, Timothy C ^b   Pravosudov, Vladimir V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain size; Chickadee; Cognition; Expensive tissue; Guts; Stomach

Indexed keywords

PARIDAE;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIRD; BRAIN; CLIMATE; EVOLUTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEART; ORGAN SIZE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; BRAIN; CLIMATE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEART; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 84912527688     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: 14219743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000363686     Document Type: Article

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