Social life histories: Jackdaw dominance increases with age, terminally declines and shortens lifespan

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1791, 2014, Pages

  Verhulst, Simon ^a   Geerdink, Moniek ^a   Salomons, H Martijn ^a   Boonekamp, Jelle J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ageing; Birds; Corvids; Dominance; Senescence

Indexed keywords

AGING; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DOMINANCE; FITNESS; LEARNING; LIFE HISTORY; LONGEVITY; MEMORY; PASSERINE; RANKING; RESOURCE USE; SENESCENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGING; ANIMAL; CORVUS; LONGEVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CROWS; LONGEVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 85003056159     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1045     Document Type: Article

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